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These Days · Bon Jovi

EXERCISE 1 OF 49
Groove I -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesIDBVS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play These Days on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
205
LENGTH
6:11
DIFFICULTY
42/100

silence through bars 1-18, kick and crashes through bars 19-41, snare through bars 42-61, toms through bars 62-63, snare through bars 64-69 and toms through bars 70-71, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    64
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |------x-----x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x-x-----x---|
HF |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
These Days -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- I, D -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part Q -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q and Part V -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part V and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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