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My Way · Limp Bizkit

EXERCISE 15 OF 31
Groove I
65 / 97 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART S9
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGODBS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play My Way on drums

97 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 4:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
66/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-73, silence through bars 74-79 and hi-hat through bars 80-97.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-32, 49-51 and 53-55, and 2 more places -- 24.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    25               26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |X---------------|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|----------------|
SD |----X--g-g--X---|----X--g----X---|
BD |x--x---xx--x---x|x-x-----xx-x-x-x|
My Way -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 24, 33, 34, 48, 52, 56 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part O -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is My Way?

97 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 My Way hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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 My Way?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 24, 33, 34, 48, 52, 56 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED