I Did It My Way - drum · Revolution Renaissance

136 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-43, 45-51 and 53-55, and 5 more places -- 30.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 125 BPM
I DID IT MY WAY - DRUM · BAR 38
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 35, 36, 44 and 12 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 35-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 9 sections: 100 keep time, 18 are fills and 8 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-32.

CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAJGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Did It My Way - drum?

125 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 I Did It My Way - drum hard to play on drums?

53 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 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 I Did It My Way - drum?

7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 35, 36, 44 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED
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