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Separate Ways (Worlds Apart) · Journey

EXERCISE 29 OF 53
Join Part D to Chorus 2 (bars 89-91)
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0 / 53 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Separate Ways (Worlds Apart) on drums

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.

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
5:22
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-32, hi-hat through bars 33-57, toms through bars 58-81, hi-hat through bars 82-106 and ride through bars 107-129, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    42
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Separate Ways (Worlds Apart) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- H -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q, B -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 29-40 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 59-91 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 87-123 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part S9 and Part AC -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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