Meet Me Half Way (Over the Top Soundtrack) · Kenny Loggins

102 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:24 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
34/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-6, 8 and 10, and 36 more places -- 46.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
MEET ME HALF WAY (OVER THE TOP SOUNDTRACK) · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 20, 37, 38, 54, 82, 90 and 1 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 37-38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 6 sections: 89 keep time and 7 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-16.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Meet Me Half Way (Over the Top Soundtrack)?

120 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 Meet Me Half Way (Over the Top Soundtrack) hard to play on drums?

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, 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 Meet Me Half Way (Over the Top Soundtrack)?

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 20, 37, 38, 54, 82, 90 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED
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