← SONGS

The Wilde Flowers · Opeth

EXERCISE 24 OF 66
Run G1 · Part G (bars 18-27)
56 / 137 BARS COVERED
0 / 66 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART Y
PART S
BREAK
OUTRO
9 groovesS8BYSG+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Wilde Flowers on drums

137 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 6:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
6:09
DIFFICULTY
74/100

snare through bars 1-17, ride through bars 18-35, snare through bars 36-41, ride through bars 42-82, silence through bars 83-126 and hi-hat through bars 127-128, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 5 more places -- 23.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    2                                3
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
HH |--------------------------------|--------------------o-----------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x-----------x-----------|
T2 |--------------------------------|--------------------------x-----|
FT |--------------------------------|----------------------------x-x-|
BD |x---------------x-----x-----x---|x---------------x-------x-------|
HF |----g---x---g---x---g---x---g---|x---g---x---g---x---------------|
The Wilde Flowers -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 9, 13, 15 and 24 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- B -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Bars 14-28 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part S -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
START THE COURSE ↑

Questions

What BPM is The Wilde Flowers?

90 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 The Wilde Flowers hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 6:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 16 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 The Wilde Flowers?

18 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 9, 13, 15 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED