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Potato-Head In Wonderland · UtsuP

EXERCISE 17 OF 52
Groove L
74 / 128 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
PART C
PART J
PART Q
PART V
CHORUS
PART C
PART J
PART Q
PART V
CHORUS 2
11 groovesWCJQV+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Potato-Head In Wonderland on drums

128 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 3:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
83/100

hi-hat through bars 3-6, ride through bars 7-10, hi-hat through bars 11-20, ride through bars 21-24, hi-hat through bars 25-28 and toms through bars 29-32, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-13, 15-17 and 49-50, and 5 more places -- 17.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    11
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |---------------------------------------------x--|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
BD |---x--------x--x-----x-----x--------x--x-----x--|
Potato-Head In Wonderland -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 2, 5, 6, 9, 29, 30 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- J -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V, W -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 3-45 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  7. Through Part J -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through Part J -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Potato-Head In Wonderland?

136 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Potato-Head In Wonderland hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 19 sittings, about 24 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 Potato-Head In Wonderland?

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 2, 5, 6, 9, 29, 30 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED