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Little Wing · Stevie Ray Vaughan

EXERCISE 27 OF 30
2-bar fill at bar 100
94 / 102 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
PART C
CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFPCMS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Little Wing on drums

102 bars, 6:28, at 60 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
6:28
DIFFICULTY
60/100

hi-hat through bars 2-3, kick and crashes through bars 4-12, snare through bars 13-17, ride through bars 18-22, snare through bars 23-27 and ride through bars 28-32, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-14, 16-17 and 22-24, and 7 more places -- 24.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
SD |--------r---------------r-------|
BD |x---x-----------x---x-----------|
HF |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Little Wing -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 40, 41, 46, 47, 48, 50 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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, M -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H (a two-bar phrase) -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 38-61 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 42-99 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Little Wing?

60 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Little Wing hard to play on drums?

60 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?

102 bars, about 6:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 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 Little Wing?

5 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 40, 41, 46, 47, 48, 50 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED