The Way It Is · Bruce Hornsby

114 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 4:21 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockPop90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 100% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-104 and 106-114 -- 100% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 105 BPM
THE WAY IT IS · BAR 10
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 4 sections: 104 keep time and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-104.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
3 groovesBS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Way It Is?

105 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 It Is hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED
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