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Ride The Wave · Spiritbox

EXERCISE 22 OF 34
Run S81 · Part S8 (bars 70-77)
91 / 107 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S8
PART B
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
BREAK
PART K
PART S8
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCBGS5M+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ride The Wave on drums

107 bars of 4/4 at a walking 89 BPM, 4:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
89 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
4:47
DIFFICULTY
47/100

hi-hat through bars 1-17, ride through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-31, snare through bars 32-35, ride through bars 36-51 and silence through bars 52-61, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-24, 36-42 and 44-46, and 4 more places -- 33.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    18               19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|--------------x-|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|--x---x---x---x-|
HF |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Ride The Wave -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 43, 47, 70, 71, 72, 73 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- C, B -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 25-51 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 50-68 -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part S8 and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 70-90 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Ride The Wave?

89 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 Ride The Wave hard to play on drums?

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 4:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Ride The Wave?

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 43, 47, 70, 71, 72, 73 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED