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Way Down We Go · Kaleo

EXERCISE 10 OF 22
Run E1 · Part E (bars 25-34)
50 / 64 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCFEDS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Way Down We Go on drums

64 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 3:08 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-10 and toms through bars 11-64.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 33-34 and 36-38, and 3 more places -- 38.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
FT |x-g-x-g-x-x-x-g-|
BD |x---x---x-x-x---|
Way Down We Go -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 56 and 60.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- C, F -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through Part D and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Bars 25-52 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Way Down We Go?

82 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 Way Down We Go hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

64 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 4 sittings, about 31 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Way Down We Go?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 56 and 60.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 64 BARS ANALYSED