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Lovely Day · Bill Withers

EXERCISE 12 OF 12
Play the whole song with the record
104 / 104 BARS COVERED
0 / 12 PASSED · 104 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, OUTRO, OUTRO 2
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCDAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lovely Day on drums

104 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 4:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
61/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-24, 26 and 28, and 16 more places -- 63.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x--x-xx-------|
Lovely Day -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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?

104 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED