Way To Go · Empire Of The Sun

89 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 2:54 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 90% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-17, 19-45 and 47-49, and 6 more places -- 89.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 123 BPM
WAY TO GO · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 18, 50, 58 and 72.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars: 84 keep time and 5 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-49.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Way To Go?

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 Way To Go hard to play on drums?

46 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?

89 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 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 To Go?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 18, 50, 58 and 72.

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