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EXERCISE 34 OF 67
Groove T -- Part T (a two-bar phrase)
126 / 181 BARS COVERED
0 / 67 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART T
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART T
PART O
PART T
PART Z
PART L
10 groovesGOTLB+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play In Waves on drums

181 bars of 4/4 at 153 BPM, about 4:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
153 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
181
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
73/100

snare through bars 2-17, hi-hat through bars 18-27, snare through bars 28-43, hi-hat through bars 44-51, ride through bars 52-60 and snare through bars 61-77, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 22 more places -- 14.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x---xxx---x-|
In Waves -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 9, 16, 17, 21, 35, 43 and 24 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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, C -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 12-43 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 48-64 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part O -- 7 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and Part T -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is In Waves?

153 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 In Waves hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

181 bars, about 4:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 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 In Waves?

14 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 9, 16, 17, 21, 35, 43 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 181 BARS ANALYSED