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Light My Way · Audioslave

EXERCISE 3 OF 26
Groove B -- Part B
52 / 94 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, CHORUS, OUTRO 2
PART B
CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCIEBG+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Light My Way on drums

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

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bars 1-76, snare through bars 77-84 and hi-hat through bars 85-94.

The beat

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.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-o-x-x-x-o-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------x--x--x--|
Light My Way -- 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 80 and 94.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- C, A -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED