Six Days · DJ Shadow

84 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 3:53 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Hip Hop / ReggaeElectronicUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 82% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 6-8 and 10, and 13 more places -- 81.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 86 BPM
SIX DAYS · BAR 7
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars across 2 sections: 81 keep time and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-84.

VERSE
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Six Days?

86 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 Six Days hard to play on drums?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 3 sittings, about 17 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED
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