This Is How It Goes · Billy Talent

93 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 3:27 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunk90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-16, 26-32 and 46-52, and 4 more places -- 33.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 108 BPM
THIS IS HOW IT GOES · BARS 10-11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 8, 24, 44, 60, 64, 68 and 6 more.

LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

93 bars across 12 sections: 65 keep time, 12 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-43.

PART B
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesEGLOB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is This Is How It Goes?

108 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 This Is How It Goes hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in This Is How It Goes?

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 8, 24, 44, 60, 64, 68 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED
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