These Days · Jackson Browne

67 bars, 3:53, at 69 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

RockPopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
69 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 8 more places -- 22.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 69 BPM
THESE DAYS · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 5, 19, 21, 23, 27, 45 and 10 more.

LOOP · 69 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 69 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 69 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 69 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

67 bars across 7 sections: 41 keep time, 16 are fills, 1 is a stop and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 28-35.

COUNT-IN
PART D
PART C
CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
5 groovesHCDS1S6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is These Days?

69 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 These Days?

13 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 5, 19, 21, 23, 27, 45 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 67 BARS ANALYSED
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