If Today Was Your Last Day · Nickelback

89 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:57 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-17, 19-20 and 39-41, and 9 more places -- 38.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 90 BPM
IF TODAY WAS YOUR LAST DAY · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 14, 21, 26, 38, 46, 53 and 8 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 5 sections: 64 keep time, 14 are fills, 7 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 57-71.

PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDBAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is If Today Was Your Last Day?

90 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 If Today Was Your Last Day hard to play on drums?

52 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in If Today Was Your Last Day?

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 14, 21, 26, 38, 46, 53 and 8 more.

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