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My Wave · Soundgarden

EXERCISE 1 OF 56
Groove G -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play My Wave on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
4:59
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-6, ride through bars 7-14, toms through bars 15-30, ride through bars 31-34, toms through bars 35-50 and ride through bars 51-63, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a
SD |----x-------x---x---|
FT |x---x-x---x-x---x---|
BD |x-----x---x---x---x-|
HF |x---x---x---x---x---|
My Wave -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- G -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AJ, R -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 23-39 -- 8 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part R -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part R -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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