Worst Way · Riley Green

117 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 99 BPM, 3:33 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
99 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
34/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 57% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 38 more places -- 57% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 99 BPM
WORST WAY · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 33, 53, 61, 69, 77, 81 and 3 more.

LOOP · 99 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 99 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62
LOOP · 99 BPM
BAR 77 · LANDS ON BAR 78
LOOP · 99 BPM
BARS 92-93 · LANDS ON BAR 94 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 4 sections: 95 keep time, 13 are fills, 4 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-32.

PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBCS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Worst Way?

99 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Worst Way hard to play on drums?

34 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 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 Worst Way?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 33, 53, 61, 69, 77, 81 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
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