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Short Of Daybreak · Underoath

EXERCISE 3 OF 34
Groove D -- Part D
12 / 91 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART B
PART D
PART F
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesPABFD+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Short Of Daybreak on drums

91 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 2:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
2:38
DIFFICULTY
68/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-34, silence through bars 35-37, snare through bars 38-50, toms through bars 51-55 and ride through bars 56-59, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 60-67, 70-71 and 74-75 -- 13.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    60
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------x-----------------------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x-----------x--x--x--x--x-----------|
Short Of Daybreak -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 8, 59, 69, 73 and 90.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- P -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-28 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Bars 25-51 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 38-60 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Short Of Daybreak?

125 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 Short Of Daybreak hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 2:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Short Of Daybreak?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 8, 59, 69, 73 and 90.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED