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40 Days · Slowdive

EXERCISE 1 OF 27
Groove A -- Chorus
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CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesACFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 40 Days on drums

73 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 3:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
58/100

ride through bars 1-33, hi-hat through bars 34-43, ride through bars 44-47, hi-hat through bars 48-50, ride through bars 51-71 and hi-hat through bars 72-73.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-15, 17 and 19, and 15 more places -- 53.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--x----x--x|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
40 Days -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 25, 31, 33 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 34-54 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 9 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is 40 Days?

92 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 40 Days hard to play on drums?

58 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 40 Days?

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 25, 31, 33 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED