{"id":36549,"date":"2022-08-05T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/?p=36549"},"modified":"2022-08-19T10:53:52","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T17:53:52","slug":"separate-ways-drum-cover-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/separate-ways-drum-cover-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn How To Play &#8220;Separate Ways&#8221; On Drums (By The Guy Who Wrote The Part)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iQlhFv0CdGY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;&#8216;Separate Ways&#8217; was a song we put together knowing we were going to be playing in large arenas and stadiums, so we wanted a song that had a powerful hook, a big sound, and had the effect to really rock the house.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/watch-steve-smith-perform-at-the-2020-drumeo-festival\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Steve Smith<\/a> wrote and recorded the drum parts on the track back in the early &#8217;80s. It&#8217;s since become a legendary song (it even got the remix treatment in season 4 of Stranger Things) with a ton of different fills. In this video, the former Journey drummer breaks down each part and plays through the full tune.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;ll see:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>How Steve used different toms to make one part more melodic<\/li><li>An overview of the big fills in the middle section<\/li><li>How adding the snare on beat 2 adds energy and drive<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>You can get the note-for-note transcription of this performance inside Drumeo &#8211; plus two full courses from Steve Smith (&#8220;The Art Of Drum Soloing&#8221; and &#8220;Beyond The Books&#8221;) and <em>so<\/em> much more. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/trial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click here to learn more and start your free trial!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/dont-stop-believin-journey-drums\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Watch: Steve Smith Breaks Down His Drum Parts On &#8220;Don&#8217;t Stop Believin'&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe class=\"email-form-include-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/weeklyemail\" frameborder=\"none\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this video, Steve Smith shows you how (and why) he wrote the drum part for &#8220;Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)&#8221; and plays through the song.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":36575,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4021,4016],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-performances-and-playalongs","category-songs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36549"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36569,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36549\/revisions\/36569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}