Thats The way · Celine Dion

89 bars of 4/4 at a walking 93 BPM, 3:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 89% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-28, 30-41 and 43-53, and 1 more place -- 88.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 93 BPM
THATS THE WAY · BAR 56
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 3 and 29.

LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 3 sections: 84 keep time, 2 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-89.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Thats The way?

93 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 Thats The way hard to play on drums?

53 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Thats The way?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 3 and 29.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED
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