Light My Way · Audioslave

94 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 4:29 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-27 and 37-52 -- 37.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 84 BPM
LIGHT MY WAY · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 80 and 94.

LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 94
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

94 bars across 6 sections: 84 keep time, 2 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 29-58.

PART B
CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCIEBG+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Light My Way?

84 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 Light My Way hard to play on drums?

56 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 4:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Light My Way?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 80 and 94.

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