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Seperate Ways (Worlds Apart) · Journey

EXERCISE 3 OF 52
Groove Q -- Part Q (a two-bar phrase)
49 / 176 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 23 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Q, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Seperate Ways (Worlds Apart) on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
5:25
DIFFICULTY
62/100

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 107-123, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-----------|
T1 |------------x---|
T2 |--------x---x---|
FT |x---x---x-------|
BD |x-------x---x---|
Seperate Ways (Worlds Apart) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 101-142 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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