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Have A Nice Day · Bon Jovi

EXERCISE 9 OF 33
Fill at bar 14 and 49 (a small one)
97 / 123 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
PART I
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBLIEP+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Have A Nice Day on drums

123 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:47 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
45/100

snare through bars 3-8, hi-hat through bars 9-10, toms through bars 11-12, hi-hat through bars 13-34, snare through bars 35-41 and toms through bars 42-43, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3-6, 35-36 and 38-41, and 5 more places -- 28.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    3                4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-----x-----x---|--x-----x---x---|
SD |x-----x-----x---|--x-----x---x---|
BD |--x-x---x-x---x-|x---x-x---x---x-|
Have A Nice Day -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 14, 22, 49, 77, 81 and 123.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- B, L -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-15 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part I and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 19-47 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 46-74 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part P -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Have A Nice Day?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Have A Nice Day hard to play on drums?

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Have A Nice Day?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 14, 22, 49, 77, 81 and 123.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED