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I Found A Way · Drake Bell

I Found A Way · Drake Bell
EXERCISE 26 OF 32
Join Part L to Outro (bars 65-67)
90 / 95 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Found A Way on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
59/100

hi-hat through bars 2-66, ride through bars 67-74 and hi-hat through bars 75-95.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 2, 10, 13, 29, 30, 38 and 7 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 -- H -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 55-68 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 6 minutes.
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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