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Electric Wizard v2 · Electric Wizard

EXERCISE 1 OF 24
Groove J -- Part J
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0 / 24 PASSED · 30 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
PART D
PART H
PART J
OUTRO 2
7 groovesMHJDS6+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Electric Wizard v2 on drums

145 bars, 8:03, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
8:03
DIFFICULTY
48/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-100, silence through bars 101-105 and ride through bars 106-145.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 66-86, 88 and 90, and 1 more place -- 21.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    66
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--x-----x--x--x-----x--|
Electric Wizard v2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 99, 143 and 145.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- J, M -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E (a two-bar phrase) -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part H and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 66-113 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Electric Wizard v2?

72 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Electric Wizard v2 hard to play on drums?

48 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?

145 bars, about 8:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Electric Wizard v2?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 99, 143 and 145.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED