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Funny the Way It Is · Dave Matthews Band

EXERCISE 1 OF 55
Groove L -- Outro
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COUNT-IN
PART F
PART I
PART F
PART I
PART Z
PART AF
PART AK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesLIFXS1+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Funny the Way It Is on drums

114 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 4:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
4:19
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-43, ride through bars 44-45, hi-hat through bars 46-74, snare through bars 75-78 and ride through bars 79-91, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25, 40 and 44-45, and 8 more places -- 11.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    40
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------x--x--x--|
Funny the Way It Is -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 28, 29, 30, 47, 48, 49 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- L -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F, K -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part I and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part X -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Through Part X and Part Z -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part Z -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Funny the Way It Is?

105 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 Funny the Way It Is hard to play on drums?

60 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?

114 bars, about 4:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Funny the Way It Is?

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 28, 29, 30, 47, 48, 49 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED