More Today Than Yesterday · Spiral Starecase

111 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 3:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 14-25 and 27, and 11 more places -- 55.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 144 BPM
MORE TODAY THAN YESTERDAY · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 4 sections: 98 keep time, 8 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 43-73.

PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFGDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is More Today Than Yesterday?

144 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 More Today Than Yesterday hard to play on drums?

55 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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