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EXERCISE 3 OF 38
Groove I -- Part I
30 / 78 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART M
CHORUS 3
PART S10
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesECOS12I+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Wretched on drums

78 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 3:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
78/100

silence through bars 1-14, toms through bars 15-20, snare through bars 21-28, toms through bars 29-32, snare through bars 33-45 and silence through bars 46-54, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-11, 23-26 and 37-39, and 2 more places -- 30.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    9                                10
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---x---x-x-----|
HH |--------------------------------|------------------------------o-|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|----x-------x-------x-----x---x-|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-x-x---x-x-x---x-|x-x---x-x-x---x-x-x---x-x---x---|
The Wretched -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 16, 21, 22, 30, 35 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Bars 14-23 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 17-31 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 29-37 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and Part S10 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Wretched?

85 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 Wretched hard to play on drums?

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

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Wretched?

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 16, 21, 22, 30, 35 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED