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My Way · Olivia Rodrigo

EXERCISE 1 OF 19
Groove C -- Chorus
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PART D
CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play My Way on drums

106 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 2:57 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
51/100

snare through bars 1-2 and hi-hat through bars 3-106.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 7, and 17 more places -- 51.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
My Way -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 1, 2, 22, 58 and 106.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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, D -- 5 exercises, about 36 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 5 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is My Way?

144 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?

51 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in My Way?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 1, 2, 22, 58 and 106.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED