Days Go By · Keith Urban

118 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 5:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Country / FolkPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
5:15
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-19, 23 and 25-27, and 9 more places -- 35.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 90 BPM
DAYS GO BY · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 12, 20, 24, 28, 36, 44 and 10 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

118 bars across 12 sections: 79 keep time, 16 are fills, 5 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 93-107.

PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART P
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDBUMP+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Days Go By?

90 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 Days Go By hard to play on drums?

49 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 5:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Days Go By?

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 12, 20, 24, 28, 36, 44 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED
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