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Find Your Way Back · Michelle Branch

EXERCISE 16 OF 29
Join Chorus 3 to Outro (bars 56-58)
80 / 86 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3, OUTRO
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBCFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Find Your Way Back on drums

86 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 3:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bars 2-57, ride through bars 58-67 and hi-hat through bars 68-86.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-5, 14-20 and 22-33, and 6 more places -- 62.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 13, 21, 41, 49, 59, 61 and 7 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Bars 2-17 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Bars 21-63 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 54-71 -- 9 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Find Your Way Back?

98 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 Find Your Way Back 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Find Your Way Back?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 13, 21, 41, 49, 59, 61 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED