Just The Way You Are (2021 Remaster) · Billy Joel

167 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 4:57 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
167
LENGTH
4:57
DIFFICULTY
34/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26, 28 and 30, and 26 more places -- 22.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 134 BPM
JUST THE WAY YOU ARE (2021 REMASTER) · BAR 93
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

167 bars across 15 sections: 116 keep time and 39 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 46-69.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART H
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
12 groovesEHBS1D+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Just The Way You Are (2021 Remaster)?

134 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 Just The Way You Are (2021 Remaster) hard to play on drums?

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

167 bars, about 4:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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