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Running Out Of Days · 3 Doors Down

EXERCISE 1 OF 36
Groove B -- Outro
0 / 68 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART F
PART K
PART I
PART K
PART U
BREAK
OUTRO
6 groovesBKFIU+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Running Out Of Days on drums

68 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 3:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
69/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-37, snare through bars 38-44, toms through bars 45-46, silence through bars 47-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-58, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 53, and 2 more places -- 11.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    53
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---------x-----x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-----x-x-----x---|
Running Out Of Days -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 5, 38, 39, 40, 42 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- B -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 31-41 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 39-47 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Running Out Of Days?

85 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Running Out Of Days hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Running Out Of Days?

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 5, 38, 39, 40, 42 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 68 BARS ANALYSED