The Way · Fastball

126 bars of 4/4 at 121 BPM, about 4:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

PopAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
121 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 9 more places -- 44% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 121 BPM
THE WAY · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 40 and 73.

LOOP · 121 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 8 sections: 111 keep time, 3 are fills, 2 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-39.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART D
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBDFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Way?

121 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 The Way hard to play on drums?

50 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Way?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 40 and 73.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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