Separate Ways (Worlds Apart) [Drumeo] · Journey

176 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 5:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO

132 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

176

LENGTH

5:20

DIFFICULTY

69/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-106, ride through bars 107-130, hi-hat through bars 131-136, toms through bars 137-138 and hi-hat through bars 139-154, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42-48, 50-56 and 91-97, and 3 more places -- 24.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    46
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------x-----o-----x-----o-----x-----o-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
HF |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|

17 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 32, 36, 39, 40, 41, 49 and 25 more.

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- L -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- B, O -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
3. Bars 32-58 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
4. Through Part B and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
5. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
6. Bars 55-85 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
7. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
9. and 8 more sittings after that.