Lovely Day · Bill Withers

103 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 4:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Funk / SoulPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 65% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 26, and 17 more places -- 65% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 98 BPM
LOVELY DAY · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 84.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars across 4 sections: 97 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-80.

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

Questions

What BPM is Lovely Day?

98 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 Lovely Day hard to play on drums?

61 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Lovely Day?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 84.

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