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Of wall (full tab) · Leechmilk
EXERCISE 13 OF 51
Groove G (a two-bar phrase)
75 / 165 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I, PART L, PART R
PART A
PART C
PART I
PART L
PART R
CHORUS
OUTRO
9 groovesXRIKA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Of wall (full tab) on drums

165 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:46 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
43/100

toms through bars 1-36, hi-hat through bars 37-48, snare through bars 49-57, hi-hat through bars 58-65, snare through bars 66-82 and hi-hat through bars 83-90, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 96-97, 100-101 and 104-105, and 7 more places -- 12.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    96
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |----xxxx----x---|
Of wall (full tab) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 36, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- X, A -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part I -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part C and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Bars 50-66 -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Bars 54-77 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Of wall (full tab)?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Of wall (full tab) hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Of wall (full tab)?

6 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 36, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED