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Bathroom Wall · Faster Pussycat

Bathroom Wall · Faster Pussycat
EXERCISE 4 OF 19
Groove B -- Outro (a two-bar phrase)
105 / 138 BARS COVERED
0 / 19 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesDBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bathroom Wall on drums

138 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 3:17 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
61/100

toms through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-138.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18, 20 and 22-30, and 17 more places -- 71.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    22               23
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |o---o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|x-----x---x---x-|
Bathroom Wall -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 21, 33, 45, 57, 73, 85 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Bathroom Wall?

168 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Bathroom Wall hard to play on drums?

61 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Bathroom Wall?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 21, 33, 45, 57, 73, 85 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED