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Dead Wreckoning · Aborted

EXERCISE 18 OF 54
Groove M -- Part M
79 / 141 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
PART C
PART I
PART M
PART F
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesAEAFFCS20+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 2
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dead Wreckoning on drums

141 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
5:34
DIFFICULTY
71/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, ride through bars 3-17, snare through bars 18-22, toms through bars 23-26, snare through bars 27-33 and ride through bars 34-39, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 62-63, 65-66 and 68-69, and 9 more places -- 19.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    63
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-----------|
BD |x-------x---x---|
Dead Wreckoning -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 14, 16, 17, 18, 23, 24 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- AF, AE -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 8-19 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part M and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dead Wreckoning?

120 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 Dead Wreckoning hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 5:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Dead Wreckoning?

7 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 14, 16, 17, 18, 23, 24 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED