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My Way · Elvis Presley

EXERCISE 1 OF 26
Groove C -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCELAJ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play My Way on drums

68 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 3:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-13, kick and crashes through bars 14-16, hi-hat through bars 17-55, ride through bars 56-65 and snare through bars 66-68.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-13, 17-19 and 21, and 1 more place -- 39.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    8
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
HH |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------r-------------------------------r---------------|
BD |x-------------------------------x-------------------------------|
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 3 times: bars 26, 66 and 67.

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, L -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part J -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is My Way?

84 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 My Way hard to play on drums?

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in My Way?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 26, 66 and 67.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 68 BARS ANALYSED