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Copper Wasp Test · Night Verses

EXERCISE 1 OF 60
Groove AT -- Outro 2 (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 60 PASSED · 35 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
PART A
PART Q
PART P
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesATAPAWQ+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Copper Wasp Test on drums

172 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
49/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-45, snare through bars 46-75, silence through bars 76-80 and hi-hat through bars 81-95, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 87-90, 111-115 and 119-120, and 12 more places -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    119              120
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x-------|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
T2 |----------------|--x---------x-x-|
FT |----------------|------------x-x-|
BD |x-----x-----x-x-|------x---x-----|
Copper Wasp Test -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 63 times: bars 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 57 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- AT, AW -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Bars 27-55 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 32-59 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part S5 and Part AK -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Copper Wasp Test?

140 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 Copper Wasp Test hard to play on drums?

49 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

172 bars, about 4:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Copper Wasp Test?

12 fills to learn, played 63 times: bars 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 57 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 172 BARS ANALYSED