Show Me The Way · Peter Frampton

131 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 3:58 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-11, 14-15 and 31, and 11 more places -- 35.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 132 BPM
SHOW ME THE WAY · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 36, 40, 44 and 7 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

131 bars across 14 sections: 93 keep time, 13 are fills, 4 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 49-64.

PART G
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART H
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDHCIG+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Show Me The Way?

132 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 Show Me The Way hard to play on drums?

48 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Show Me The Way?

10 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 36, 40, 44 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED
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