Way Away · Yellowcard

150 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkPop150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9, 11-13 and 15, and 9 more places -- 34.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 180 BPM
WAY AWAY · BARS 33-34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 10, 14, 22, 30, 40, 47 and 13 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

150 bars across 11 sections: 105 keep time, 19 are fills, 4 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 93-107.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART M
CHORUS 3
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBQSEM+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Way Away?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Way Away hard to play on drums?

62 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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 Way Away?

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 10, 14, 22, 30, 40, 47 and 13 more.

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