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Glad You Came · The Wanted

Glad You Came · The Wanted
EXERCISE 1 OF 12
Groove B -- Part B
0 / 68 BARS COVERED
0 / 12 PASSED · 23 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDBCS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
JOIN · 2
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Glad You Came on drums

68 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 2:26 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
2:26
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-28, kick and crashes through bars 29-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-68.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 29-43 and 68 -- 36.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Glad You Came -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- B, D -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. Bars 13-47 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Glad You Came?

112 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 Glad You Came 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 2:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 68 BARS ANALYSED