The Way The News Goes · Periphery

105 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 4:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
93/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-27, 41-43 and 45 -- 11.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 102 BPM
THE WAY THE NEWS GOES · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 33 more.

LOOP · 102 BPM
BARS 5-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 102 BPM
BARS 28-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 9 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 8 sections: 47 keep time, 39 are fills, 2 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 77-85.

PART S2
PART H
CHORUS
PART S5
PART AD
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesMAMADS2AJ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Way The News Goes?

102 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 The News Goes hard to play on drums?

93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 90 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 4:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 13 sittings, about 22 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 Way The News Goes?

10 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 33 more.

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