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Lonely Day · System of a Down

EXERCISE 1 OF 19
Groove G -- Outro 2
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COUNT-IN
PART B
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGBDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lonely Day on drums

73 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 113 BPM, 1:56 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
1:56
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-40 and ride through bars 41-73.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-43, 45-47 and 49-51, and 4 more places -- 36.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    42
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x---x-----x-|
Lonely Day -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 40, 44, 52, 60, 68 and 72.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- G, B -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 9-32 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Lonely Day?

113 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Lonely Day hard to play on drums?

54 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 1:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Lonely Day?

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 40, 44, 52, 60, 68 and 72.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED