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Someday · Nickelback

EXERCISE 13 OF 28
Join Chorus to Part C (bars 19-21)
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0 / 28 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART C
COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART S6
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGCS1S6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Someday on drums

68 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 3:19 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-10, toms through bars 11-12, hi-hat through bars 13-28, toms through bars 29-30 and hi-hat through bars 31-46, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 31-33, and 6 more places -- 40.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    13               14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|x------x-xx---x-|
Someday -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 6, 11, 12, 16, 20, 29 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- G, C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 17-43 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 7 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Someday?

82 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 Someday hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Someday?

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 6, 11, 12, 16, 20, 29 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 68 BARS ANALYSED