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It Wont Be Long · Windmill

It Wont Be Long · Windmill
EXERCISE 20 OF 52
Join Part L to Chorus (bars 32-34)
131 / 207 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L, CHORUS
PART B
PART L
CHORUS
PART B
PART U
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART B
11 groovesOBUQJ+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play It Wont Be Long on drums

205 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:32 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
205
LENGTH
4:32
DIFFICULTY
55/100

hi-hat through bars 1-10, ride through bars 11-12, snare through bars 13-32, ride through bars 33-64, hi-hat through bars 65-72 and ride through bars 73-76, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-36, 38-40 and 42-43, and 17 more places -- 26.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    35
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|
It Wont Be Long -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 5, 9, 32, 33, 49, 61 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- O, B -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-25 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 22-34 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 30-89 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part X and Part U -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part U and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is It Wont Be Long?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is It Wont Be Long hard to play on drums?

55 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

205 bars, about 4:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 It Wont Be Long?

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 5, 9, 32, 33, 49, 61 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 205 BARS ANALYSED