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

EXERCISE 1 OF 15
Groove A -- Part A
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PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Meet Me Half Way (Over the Top Soundtrack) on drums

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.

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
34/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Meet Me Half Way (Over the Top Soundtrack) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- A, B -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
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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