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New Day · Karnivool

EXERCISE 12 OF 71
Groove L
99 / 225 BARS COVERED
0 / 71 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART O
CHORUS
PART O
PART V
PART Q
PART AB
PART AE
PART AL
PART S
OUTRO
15 groovesFABAVSAE+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 4
JOIN · 14
LINK · 7
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play New Day on drums

225 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 87 BPM, 7:57 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
225
LENGTH
7:57
DIFFICULTY
79/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-7, silence through bars 8-10, hi-hat through bars 11-54, ride through bars 55-62 and hi-hat through bars 63-78, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 53, 155-156 and 162-177 -- 9.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    162
    1.......2.......3.......
CC |x-----------x-----------|
HH |----o---o-------o---o---|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-----x---x-------x-----|
New Day -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 5, 6, 54, 62, 110, 118 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 62 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 -- S -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V, AB -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part V -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  6. Bars 41-211 -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Bars 48-65 -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is New Day?

87 BPM, in 3/4, 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?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

225 bars, about 7:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 20 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 New Day?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 5, 6, 54, 62, 110, 118 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 225 BARS ANALYSED