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Days Before You Came · Placebo

EXERCISE 1 OF 12
Fill at bar 4 and 12 (a small one)
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PART S2
PART S4
PART S6
OUTRO
8 groovesS8S6S4S2S1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Days Before You Came on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
183 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
2:29
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, silence through bars 9-12, snare through bars 13-32, silence through bars 33-36 and snare through bars 37-64, and 2 more changes after that.

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 9 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. Bars 4-37 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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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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