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The Woven Web · Not Animals As Leaders

EXERCISE 8 OF 66
Groove E -- Part E (a two-bar phrase)
30 / 115 BARS COVERED
0 / 66 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART S6
PART AB
PART S8
PART AI
PART AL
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesJEAIABAL+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 4
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Woven Web on drums

115 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 3:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
83/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-6, toms through bars 7-8, ride through bars 9-10, toms through bars 11-12 and ride through bars 13-26, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 69-84 -- 15.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    69                                                               70
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x-------x-------|x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x-------x---------------x---------------x---------------x-------|--------x-------x-------x---------------x-------x-------x-------|
The Woven Web -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11 and 28 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 -- AI -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 13-37 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Woven Web?

118 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 Woven Web hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 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 Woven Web?

16 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED