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IDWT$ · Bad Omens

EXERCISE 33 OF 37
Fill at bar 88 (a small one)
79 / 93 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART I
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesFCWIS+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 1
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play IDWT$ on drums

93 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, ride through bars 25-32, silence through bars 33-36, hi-hat through bars 37-52 and ride through bars 53-59, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-23 and 45-51 -- 17.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    17               18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--o-x-o-xxo-x-o-|xxo-x-o-xxo-x-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x--x|
BD |x-------x-------|x-------x-------|
IDWT$ -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 12, 16, 24, 40, 44, 52 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- F, C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 12-41 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part P -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 60-76 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part R and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is IDWT$?

110 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 IDWT$ hard to play on drums?

46 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in IDWT$?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 12, 16, 24, 40, 44, 52 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED