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New Day · Allt

New Day · Allt
EXERCISE 5 OF 44
Groove J -- Part J (a two-bar phrase)
34 / 122 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
CHORUS
PART E
BREAK
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART T
CHORUS 3
PART E
PART Y
PART E
OUTRO
8 groovesBEJYS4+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play New Day on drums

122 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
58/100

snare through bars 2-13, toms through bars 14-17, silence through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-41, snare through bars 42-77 and toms through bars 78-87, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 17 more places -- 17.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    43
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |------x-----x-----------------x-----------------|
New Day -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 15, 33, 40, 41, 49, 79 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part J -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is New Day?

150 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 New Day hard to play on drums?

58 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 14 sittings, about 24 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 New Day?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 15, 33, 40, 41, 49, 79 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED