My Way · Sid Vicious

132 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:24 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 55% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-13, 21-27 and 35-41, and 3 more places -- 54.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
MY WAY · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 15 sections: 115 keep time and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 64-90.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART D
PART E
PART D
CHORUS 4
PART F
PART G
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCDEFG+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is My Way?

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 My Way hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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