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If Today Was Your Last Day · Nickelback

EXERCISE 19 OF 26
Play the whole song with the record
75 / 89 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 89 BARS LIT
BREAK
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDBAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play If Today Was Your Last Day on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
52/100

toms through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-14, hi-hat through bars 15-22, snare through bars 23-38, hi-hat through bars 39-53 and snare through bars 54-56, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |g---------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x----x--x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
HF |----x----x--x---|
If Today Was Your Last Day -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Bars 11-22 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 5 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED