Typical Ways · Culture Wars

80 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 2:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
2:36
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 13-20 and 33, and 5 more places -- 27.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 123 BPM
TYPICAL WAYS · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 21, 22, 47, 48, 52, 56 and 2 more.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BARS 21-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

80 bars across 4 sections: 66 keep time, 8 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-20.

COUNT-IN
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesIBGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Typical Ways?

123 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 Typical Ways hard to play on drums?

45 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 2:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Typical Ways?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 21, 22, 47, 48, 52, 56 and 2 more.

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