Finding My Way · Rush

182 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 5:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockProgressive120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
182
LENGTH
5:08
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-36, 38-40 and 43-44, and 14 more places -- 23.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 142 BPM
FINDING MY WAY · BAR 31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 37, 41, 45, 48, 49, 74 and 15 more.

LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BARS 48-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 8 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

182 bars across 27 sections: 92 keep time, 21 are fills, 20 are stops and 42 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 135-148.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART C
PART L
18 groovesDLAS1C+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Finding My 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 Finding My Way hard to play on drums?

45 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

182 bars, about 5:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Finding My Way?

9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 37, 41, 45, 48, 49, 74 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 182 BARS ANALYSED
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