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'S/' The Way · Ave Mujica

EXERCISE 44 OF 65
Groove AK -- Part AK
118 / 148 BARS COVERED
0 / 65 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AK
CHORUS
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART AK
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
6 groovesESLAKS10+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 'S/' The Way on drums

148 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 3:44 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
70/100

hi-hat through bar 1, toms through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-29, kick and crashes through bars 30-37, hi-hat through bars 38-43 and snare through bars 44-45, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--xxxxxx--|
'S/' The Way -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

22 fills to learn, played 65 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 5, 9, 13 and 59 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- E -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I (a two-bar phrase) -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 13-77 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 21-79 -- 8 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 48-78 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part AK -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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?

148 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 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?

22 fills to learn, played 65 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 5, 9, 13 and 59 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED