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Just The Way You Are · Milky

EXERCISE 4 OF 16
Groove D -- Part D
83 / 112 BARS COVERED
0 / 16 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, OUTRO, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
BREAK
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesADS2EFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Just The Way You Are on drums

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

53 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
112
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
53/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, silence through bars 9-15, hi-hat through bars 16-51, kick and crashes through bars 52-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-112.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 22-97 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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