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The Way The News Goes · Periphery

EXERCISE 5 OF 41
Groove AD -- Part AD (a two-bar phrase)
20 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AD
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Way The News Goes on drums

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.

93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

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

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-20, snare through bars 21-27, hi-hat through bars 28-40, snare through bars 41-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-48, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |X-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
The Way The News Goes -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- M -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AD -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- AH (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part H -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part S2 and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED