The Way I Am · Eminem

105 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 4:48 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

Hip Hop / ReggaeUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
4:48
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 74% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 23 more places -- 74% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 87 BPM
THE WAY I AM · BAR 3
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 2 sections: 104 keep time and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-105.

VERSE
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Way I Am?

87 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 I Am hard to play on drums?

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 4:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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