New Year's Day · U2

143 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 4:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-6, 9-15 and 17-35, and 6 more places -- 47.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 136 BPM
NEW YEAR'S DAY · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 4, 8, 68, 107, 126, 127 and 4 more.

LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BARS 126-127 · LANDS ON BAR 128 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

143 bars across 9 sections: 122 keep time, 10 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-39.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART G
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCFGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is New Year's Day?

136 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 New Year's Day hard to play on drums?

49 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in New Year's Day?

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 4, 8, 68, 107, 126, 127 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED
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