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The Path And The Way · Blaze

EXERCISE 1 OF 50
Groove D -- Chorus
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0 / 50 PASSED · 58 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Path And The Way on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
225
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
55/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, silence through bars 2-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, ride through bars 25-64, hi-hat through bars 65-80 and ride through bars 81-112, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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, J -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Bars 44-68 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 78-129 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 176-213 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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