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The Way You Like It · Adema

EXERCISE 26 OF 27
Run F2 · Outro 2 (bars 52-72)
72 / 72 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 21 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
PART A
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFIBAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Way You Like It on drums

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

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
81 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
49/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-16, hi-hat through bars 17-25, snare through bars 26-32, hi-hat through bars 33-40 and kick and crashes through bars 41-52, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xx----xx--x-----|
The Way You Like It -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- F -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D, G -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 10-44 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED