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Show Me The Way · Peter Frampton

Show Me The Way · Peter Frampton
EXERCISE 44 OF 50
Run H3 · Part H (bars 91-105)
125 / 131 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Show Me The Way on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-8 and hi-hat through bars 9-131.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Show Me The Way -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 36, 40, 44 and 7 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 -- D, C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-18 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 14-29 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 35-83 -- 9 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and the Chorus 3 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and Part C -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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