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Lonley Day · Syatem Of A Down

Lonley Day · Syatem Of A Down
EXERCISE 1 OF 20
Groove B -- Outro 2
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBS1EDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lonley Day on drums

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.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
2:28
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-24, ride through bars 25-30, hi-hat through bars 31-60 and ride through bars 61-93.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

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 -- B, E -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 45-64 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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