Just The Way You Are · Milky

112 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:27 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 78% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-8, 22-51 and 62-96, and 1 more place -- 78.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 130 BPM
JUST THE WAY YOU ARE · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 16 and 56.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 9 sections: 97 keep time, 2 are fills and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 63-96.

CHORUS
BREAK
PART D
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
4 groovesADS2EFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Just The Way You Are?

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 Just The Way You Are 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Just The Way You Are?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 16 and 56.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED
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