My Wave · Soundgarden

147 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 4:59 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
4:59
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-17, 19-21 and 23-25, and 6 more places -- 20.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 128 BPM
MY WAVE · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 6, 10, 14, 18, 22, 31 and 36 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

147 bars across 13 sections: 70 keep time, 42 are fills, 1 is a stop and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 108-122.

PART D
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART R
CHORUS 3
PART R
OUTRO
BREAK
8 groovesGRAJJS13+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is My Wave?

128 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 My Wave hard to play on drums?

61 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 4:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 My Wave?

12 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 6, 10, 14, 18, 22, 31 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED
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