‘S/' the way · Ave Mujica

149 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 3:43 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-12 and 14, and 17 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 158 BPM
‘S/' THE WAY · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 65 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9 and 59 more.

LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BARS 15-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 9 TIMES

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

149 bars across 15 sections: 65 keep time, 65 are fills, 7 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 145-148.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART L
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
9 groovesELRALO+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is ‘S/' the way?

158 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is ‘S/' the way hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 11 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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 ‘S/' the way?

21 fills to learn, played 65 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9 and 59 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED
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