The Path And The Way · Blaze

225 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 4:44 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalElectronic150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
225
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 17 more places -- 26.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 190 BPM
THE PATH AND THE WAY · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 4, 8, 24, 64, 78, 96 and 13 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

225 bars across 13 sections: 169 keep time, 19 are fills, 19 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 31-47.

CHORUS
PART G
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDJGTQ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Path And The Way?

190 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Path And The Way hard to play on drums?

55 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

225 bars, about 4:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 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 The Path And The Way?

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 4, 8, 24, 64, 78, 96 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 225 BARS ANALYSED
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