Any Way You Want It · Journey

117 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 3:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23, 27-28 and 47-49, and 11 more places -- 27.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 138 BPM
ANY WAY YOU WANT IT · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 10 sections: 104 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-25.

PART B
PART E
PART H
PART E
CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGEWHP+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Any Way You Want It?

138 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 Any Way You Want It hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 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.

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