The Way You Like It · Adema

72 bars of 4/4 at a walking 81 BPM, 3:33 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalAlternative / IndieUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
81 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 33-35, and 6 more places -- 37.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 81 BPM
THE WAY YOU LIKE IT · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 16, 32, 45 and 46.

LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 81 BPM
BARS 45-46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

72 bars across 5 sections: 62 keep time and 4 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 53-72.

PART A
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFIBAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Way You Like It?

81 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 You Like It hard to play on drums?

49 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in The Way You Like It?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 16, 32, 45 and 46.

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