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Good Ol' Days · Hayley Williams

EXERCISE 1 OF 8
Groove A -- Chorus
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0 / 8 PASSED · 46 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
OUTRO
3 groovesAS4S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Good Ol' Days on drums

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

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

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
37/100

hi-hat through bars 1-12, silence through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-40, silence through bars 41-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-67.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 7 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 11-67 -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 67 BARS ANALYSED