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Days Go By · Keith Urban

Days Go By · Keith Urban
EXERCISE 37 OF 38
Run U1 · Outro 2 (bars 108-118)
107 / 118 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Days Go By on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
5:15
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-64, ride through bars 65-73, silence through bars 74-76, toms through bars 77-80 and snare through bars 81-83, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- D, B -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Bars 28-37 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 65-84 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 82-116 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
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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