Days Before You Came · Placebo

113 bars at 183 BPM -- fast, and 2:29 of it without a break -- on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
183 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
2:29
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 4, 12 and 36.

LOOP · 183 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 183 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 8 sections: 1 keeps time, 3 are fills, 93 are stops and 16 are silent.

PART S4
PART S6
OUTRO
8 groovesS8S6S4S2S1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Days Before You Came?

183 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Days Before You Came hard to play on drums?

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

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 2:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 2 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Days Before You Came?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 4, 12 and 36.

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