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The Wind Beneath My Wings · Sonata Arctica

EXERCISE 3 OF 48
Groove J -- Part J (a two-bar phrase)
88 / 156 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, OUTRO, OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART M
PART O
PART R
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBDCJR+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 8
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Wind Beneath My Wings on drums

156 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-69, ride through bars 70-71, hi-hat through bars 72-90, ride through bars 91-98 and hi-hat through bars 99-137, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-13, 15-21 and 23-29, and 20 more places -- 48.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
The Wind Beneath My Wings -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 68, 90, 106, 114, 143, 144 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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, C -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part M -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and Part R -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Wind Beneath My Wings?

135 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 The Wind Beneath My Wings hard to play on drums?

60 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 4:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 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 Wind Beneath My Wings?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 68, 90, 106, 114, 143, 144 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED