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Four Walls · While She Sleeps

EXERCISE 1 OF 63
Groove L -- Chorus
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PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
PART W
PART AB
PART AG
OUTRO
9 groovesLEABAGB+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Four Walls on drums

133 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 3:51 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-18, toms through bars 19-20, snare through bars 21-45, hi-hat through bars 46-53 and snare through bars 54-59, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-32, 34-36 and 38-40, and 9 more places -- 24.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 12, 15, 16, 20, 24, 27 and 31 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- L -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AG -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 58-74 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 67-80 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Four Walls?

138 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 Four Walls hard to play on drums?

59 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Four Walls?

19 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 12, 15, 16, 20, 24, 27 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED