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Sister Wisdom · Guardian

EXERCISE 6 OF 46
Run D1 · Part D (bars 1-9)
72 / 134 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART D
PART E
PART C
PART E
PART E
PART M
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
10 groovesFEMCD+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sister Wisdom on drums

134 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 4:05 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
47/100

toms through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-41, silence through bars 42-45, hi-hat through bars 46-82, kick and crashes through bars 83-84 and hi-hat through bars 85-101, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 36 and 40, and 9 more places -- 18% 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+a
CC |x-------------x-|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x---x-|
Sister Wisdom -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 82, 83, 84, 117, 121, 125 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- F, E -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-41 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part E and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 25-41 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 40-58 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 96-122 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sister Wisdom?

132 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 Sister Wisdom hard to play on drums?

47 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Sister Wisdom?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 82, 83, 84, 117, 121, 125 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED