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It Has To Be This Way (Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance) · Jimmy Gnecco

EXERCISE 2 OF 38
Groove Y -- Part Y
14 / 72 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Y, OUTRO 2
PART K
PART L
CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART Y
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesNKYPLFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play It Has To Be This Way (Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance) on drums

72 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 2:47 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
73/100

toms through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-15, toms through bars 16-23, hi-hat through bars 24-35, toms through bars 36-37 and snare through bars 38-39, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24-26, 38 and 42-44, and 5 more places -- 19.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x---------x-----x-x---x---x---x-|
It Has To Be This Way (Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 34 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- N -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through Part K -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-24 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Bars 20-59 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is It Has To Be This Way (Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance)?

102 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 It Has To Be This Way (Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance) hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 2:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 It Has To Be This Way (Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance)?

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 34 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED