← SONGS

I Did It My Way - drum · Revolution Renaissance

I Did It My Way - drum · Revolution Renaissance
EXERCISE 21 OF 33
Run G1 · Part G (bars 73-77)
124 / 136 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAJGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Did It My Way - drum on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
53/100

hi-hat through bars 1-99, toms through bars 100-103, hi-hat through bars 104-130, ride through bars 131-132 and hi-hat through bars 133-136.

The beat

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.

    38
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
I Did It My Way - drum -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- J, A -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 32-77 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 78-113 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
START THE COURSE ↑

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