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The Wounded · Fat Man

The Wounded · Fat Man
EXERCISE 5 OF 41
Groove G -- Break 6
23 / 116 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT
PART A
PART S3
CHORUS
PART S5
PART K
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART S12
PART K
OUTRO
BREAK 6
14 groovesDKS3AF+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Wounded on drums

116 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 2:27 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, 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
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
2:27
DIFFICULTY
47/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-48, hi-hat through bars 49-72, ride through bars 73-80, hi-hat through bars 81-88 and toms through bars 89-116.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 48-54 and 81-88 -- 19.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
The Wounded -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 16, 24, 39, 40, 44, 64 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G, K -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 9-62 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 61-72 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 73-81 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 75-98 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 97-116 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Wounded?

190 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Wounded 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 2:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 The Wounded?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 16, 24, 39, 40, 44, 64 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED