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The Idol · W.A.S.P.

The Idol · W.A.S.P.
EXERCISE 1 OF 13
Groove F -- Outro 2
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0 / 13 PASSED · 48 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesFBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Idol on drums

63 bars, 4:48, at 52 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
52 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
63
LENGTH
4:48
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-12 and hi-hat through bars 13-63.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-20, 23-45 and 47-63 -- 81.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxx----xx-x-----|
The Idol -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 8, 10, 11, 12 and 22.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 9 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 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Idol?

52 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is The Idol hard to play on drums?

46 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

63 bars, about 4:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 The Idol?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 8, 10, 11, 12 and 22.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 63 BARS ANALYSED