Glory Days · Bruce Springsteen

122 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 72% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-24, 26-30 and 32, and 10 more places -- 71.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
GLORY DAYS · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 4, 5 and 121.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 4-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 121 · LANDS ON BAR 122
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

122 bars across 5 sections: 110 keep time, 3 are fills, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-60.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEJBS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Glory Days?

120 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 Glory Days hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 4:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Glory Days?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 4, 5 and 121.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED
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