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Mayday · Three Days Grace

EXERCISE 1 OF 48
Groove E -- Part E
0 / 100 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 19 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, CHORUS, CHORUS 2
PART A
PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesHAEVCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mayday on drums

100 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 3:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
56/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-53, snare through bars 54-62, kick and crashes through bars 63-65, snare through bars 66-73 and toms through bars 74-76, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-21, 23 and 25, and 6 more places -- 19% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
Mayday -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 4, 28, 46, 54, 58, 66 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- E, H -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 40-59 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 58-77 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 62-85 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Mayday?

123 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Mayday hard to play on drums?

56 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Mayday?

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 4, 28, 46, 54, 58, 66 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED