Seperate Ways (Worlds Apart) · Journey

176 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 5:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
5:25
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-31, 58-64 and 66-80 -- 28.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
SEPERATE WAYS (WORLDS APART) · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 32, 39, 41, 57, 81, 88 and 14 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

176 bars across 10 sections: 126 keep time, 20 are fills, 12 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-31.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART Q
PART V
PART T
OUTRO
6 groovesBDQVT+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Seperate Ways (Worlds Apart)?

130 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 Seperate Ways (Worlds Apart) hard to play on drums?

62 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 5:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 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 Seperate Ways (Worlds Apart)?

12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 32, 39, 41, 57, 81, 88 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED
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