Good Ol' Days · Hayley Williams

67 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:21 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Under 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 87% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-9, 11 and 17-25, and 4 more places -- 86.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 80 BPM
GOOD OL' DAYS · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

67 bars across 5 sections: 53 keep time and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-40.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
OUTRO
3 groovesAS4S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Good Ol' Days?

80 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 Good Ol' Days hard to play on drums?

37 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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