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The Wailing And The Gnashing And The Teeth · Black Sheep Wall

EXERCISE 1 OF 59
Groove H -- Chorus
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PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART S16
PART K
OUTRO
10 groovesHCBSS16+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Wailing And The Gnashing And The Teeth on drums

391 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 145 BPM, 8:26 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
391
LENGTH
8:26
DIFFICULTY
64/100

toms through bar 1, silence through bars 2-5, snare through bars 6-51, toms through bars 52-53, snare through bars 54-83 and toms through bars 84-85, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 87-115, 200-258 and 260 -- 26.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    88
    1.......2.......3.......
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x---------------x-------|
The Wailing And The Gnashing And The Teeth -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 37, 53, 69, 85, 116, 117 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- H, C -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part B -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 35-86 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 86-262 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 260-296 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part I -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Wailing And The Gnashing And The Teeth?

145 BPM, in 3/4, 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 The Wailing And The Gnashing And The Teeth hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

391 bars, about 8:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Wailing And The Gnashing And The Teeth?

9 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 37, 53, 69, 85, 116, 117 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 391 BARS ANALYSED