Like The Way I Do · Melissa Etheridge

130 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 5:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
5:12
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-39, 63-75 and 97-109, and 1 more place -- 45.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 100 BPM
LIKE THE WAY I DO · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 7, 23, 24, 25, 26, 59 and 8 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 23-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 110 · LANDS ON BAR 111
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

130 bars across 8 sections: 105 keep time, 14 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 64-87.

PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGDKAM+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Like The Way I Do?

100 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 Like The Way I Do hard to play on drums?

49 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 5:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Like The Way I Do?

3 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 7, 23, 24, 25, 26, 59 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED
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