Lonley Day · Syatem Of A Down

93 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 113 BPM, 2:28 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
2:28
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-30 and 61-63, and 6 more places -- 43.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 113 BPM
LONLEY DAY · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 28, 48, 60, 64, 72, 80 and 3 more.

LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

93 bars across 5 sections: 56 keep time, 9 are fills, 1 is a stop and 24 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 32-47.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBS1EDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lonley 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 Lonley Day hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 2:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 28, 48, 60, 64, 72, 80 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED
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