I Found A Way · Drake Bell

95 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 2:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-28, 43-57 and 79-93 -- 46.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 130 BPM
I FOUND A WAY · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 2, 10, 13, 29, 30, 38 and 7 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 29-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

95 bars across 8 sections: 69 keep time, 13 are fills, 3 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 43-57.

PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesHCLOS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Found A Way?

130 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 Found A Way hard to play on drums?

59 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 2:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in I Found A Way?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 2, 10, 13, 29, 30, 38 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 95 BARS ANALYSED
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