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John Wayne · Billy Idol

EXERCISE 27 OF 27
Play the whole song with the record
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0 / 27 PASSED · 89 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesABJS5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play John Wayne on drums

89 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 3:52 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
50/100

hi-hat through bars 1-69, silence through bars 70-73 and hi-hat through bars 74-89.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-24 and 33-51 -- 50.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--x---x---x---x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
HF |x---x---x---x---|
John Wayne -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 32, 52, 56, 61, 65, 81 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- A, B -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  2. Bars 23-57 -- 9 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  3. Bars 61-82 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is John Wayne?

92 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 John Wayne hard to play on drums?

50 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 John Wayne?

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 32, 52, 56, 61, 65, 81 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED