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I Was Wrong · Social Distortion

EXERCISE 1 OF 31
Groove C -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
PART F
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART H
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCHFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Was Wrong on drums

116 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
53/100

hi-hat through bars 2-3, ride through bars 4-11, hi-hat through bars 12-27, ride through bars 28-35, hi-hat through bars 36-51 and ride through bars 52-67, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 4-10, 28-34 and 52-58, and 7 more places -- 46.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    4                5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|x-------x-x-----|
I Was Wrong -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 11, 19, 35, 43, 51, 59 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- C, H -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 11-23 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Bars 26-39 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 43-71 -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is I Was Wrong?

128 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 I Was Wrong hard to play on drums?

53 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 I Was Wrong?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 11, 19, 35, 43, 51, 59 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED