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The Wretch · Fit For An Autopsy

EXERCISE 32 OF 113
Join Part J to Part A (bars 42-44)
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COUNT-IN
PART E
PART J
PART A
CHORUS
PART E
PART AN
PART AQ
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART Z
OUTRO
15 groovesOEZS1A+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 27
LAND · 27
RUN · 5
JOIN · 15
LINK · 6
SECTION · 14
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Wretch on drums

198 bars at 216 BPM -- fast, and 3:40 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
216 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
198
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
66/100

silence through bars 1-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-18, toms through bars 19-20, hi-hat through bars 21-40, ride through bars 41-42 and toms through bars 43-52, and 21 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45, 47 and 49, and 18 more places -- 16.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

27 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 18, 20, 28, 36, 38, 40 and 37 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 85 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 -- O -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and Part A -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 18 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Wretch?

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

Is The Wretch hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

198 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 85 exercises over 26 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Wretch?

27 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 18, 20, 28, 36, 38, 40 and 37 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 198 BARS ANALYSED