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A Way · Biohazard

EXERCISE 1 OF 26
Groove D -- Chorus
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PART B
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDEMJBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Way on drums

69 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 1:57 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
1:57
DIFFICULTY
56/100

snare through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-17, snare through bars 18-24, hi-hat through bars 25-33 and snare through bars 34-69.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-17 and 26-33 -- 29% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x-x-xx--xx--x-x-|
A Way -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 5, 21, 37, 50, 51 and 66.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- D -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 4-33 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 44-52 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is A Way?

142 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 A Way hard to play on drums?

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 1:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 A Way?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 5, 21, 37, 50, 51 and 66.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 69 BARS ANALYSED