These Days · Bon Jovi

205 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 6:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
205
LENGTH
6:11
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 64-66, 68-69 and 71-74, and 19 more places -- 30.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 132 BPM
THESE DAYS · BAR 64
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 62, 98, 117, 118, 129, 130 and 11 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 117-118 · LANDS ON BAR 119 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 129-130 · LANDS ON BAR 131 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 138 · LANDS ON BAR 139

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

205 bars across 10 sections: 149 keep time, 17 are fills, 9 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-42.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART D
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART V
OUTRO
7 groovesIDBVS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is These Days?

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

How long is the drum part?

205 bars, about 6:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in These Days?

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 62, 98, 117, 118, 129, 130 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 205 BARS ANALYSED
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