Separate Ways (Worlds Apart) · Journey

176 bars of 4/4 at 131 BPM, about 5:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
5:22
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42-48, 50-56 and 91-97, and 1 more place -- 16.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 131 BPM
SEPARATE WAYS (WORLDS APART) · BAR 42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 32, 57, 65, 81, 88, 89 and 14 more.

LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58
LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66
LOOP · 131 BPM
BARS 88-90 · LANDS ON BAR 91 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

176 bars across 12 sections: 123 keep time, 20 are fills, 16 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-31.

PART B
CHORUS
PART K
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART S9
PART AC
OUTRO
9 groovesHQBKAC+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)?

131 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 Separate Ways (Worlds Apart) hard to play on drums?

57 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 5:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)?

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 32, 57, 65, 81, 88, 89 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED
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