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New Year's Day · U2

EXERCISE 5 OF 24
Groove E
112 / 143 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play New Year's Day on drums

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

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

TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-99, ride through bars 100-115 and hi-hat through bars 116-143.

The beat

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.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
New Year's Day -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- C, F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 36-69 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 3 and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
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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