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Journey · Wheel In The Sky

Journey · Wheel In The Sky
EXERCISE 16 OF 47
Groove F
81 / 109 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
5 groovesDPBS1XFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Journey on drums

109 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 4:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-60, toms through bars 61-64, hi-hat through bars 65-104, ride through bars 105-107 and hi-hat through bars 108-109.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17 and 21-23, and 18 more places -- 43.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 36 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- D, P -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 50-82 -- 10 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part P and the Chorus 3 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Journey?

104 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 Journey hard to play on drums?

47 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Journey?

14 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 36 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED