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Glory Days · Bruce Springsteen

EXERCISE 14 OF 20
Run J1 · Outro (bars 62-77)
112 / 122 BARS COVERED
0 / 20 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEJBS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Glory Days on drums

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

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
42/100

snare through bar 1, silence through bars 2-3, snare through bars 4-5, hi-hat through bars 6-61, snare through bars 62-77 and hi-hat through bars 78-120, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- E -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 12 minutes.
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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