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Like The Way I Do · Melissa Etheridge

Like The Way I Do · Melissa Etheridge
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EXERCISE 22 OF 32
Join Part K to Chorus 2 (bars 61-63)
113 / 130 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Like The Way I Do on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
5:12
DIFFICULTY
49/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-26, hi-hat through bars 27-40, ride through bars 41-44, snare through bars 45-62 and hi-hat through bars 63-92, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-xxx-xxx-xx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------xx--x--x-|
Like The Way I Do -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- G, D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Bars 39-62 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 78-100 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
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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