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A Way Out · Pebblebrain

EXERCISE 2 OF 25
Groove A -- Chorus 2 (a two-bar phrase)
24 / 80 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 21 BARS LIT
CHORUS
VERSE
CHORUS 2
VERSE 2
CHORUS 3
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEAMHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Way Out on drums

80 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 3:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
76/100

hi-hat through bars 1-55, snare through bars 56-63 and hi-hat through bars 64-80.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-8, 10-12 and 14-16, and 5 more places -- 30% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    6                7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |ogxgx-XgXgxgx-xg|Xgxgx-XgXgxgx-xg|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-x--x----xx-x--|x-x--x---xxx-x--|
HF |x----x-------x--|-----x-------x--|
A Way Out -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 60, 61, 62, 63, 73, 75 and 3 more.

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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and the Verse -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 19-59 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is A Way Out?

82 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 Out hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 9 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 A Way Out?

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 60, 61, 62, 63, 73, 75 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED