Way Maker · Leeland

58 bars, 3:13, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
58
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-21 -- 32.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 72 BPM
WAY MAKER · BAR 4
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 37 and 4 more.

LOOP · 72 BPM
BARS 25-29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BARS 37-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

58 bars across 4 sections: 42 keep time, 10 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-21.

COUNT-IN
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesHBCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Way Maker?

72 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Way Maker hard to play on drums?

37 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 7 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

58 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Maker?

2 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 37 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 58 BARS ANALYSED
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