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The Wrong Time · Obituary

EXERCISE 16 OF 66
Fill at bar 49
87 / 138 BARS COVERED
0 / 66 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART L
PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART S
CHORUS 4
PART S
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesHECSL+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 4
JOIN · 11
LINK · 5
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Wrong Time on drums

138 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 4:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
57/100

hi-hat through bar 1, toms through bars 2-17, snare through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-37, snare through bars 38-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-53, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-23, 33 and 38-40, and 11 more places -- 19.9% 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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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
The Wrong Time -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 24, 25, 37, 41, 49, 53 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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, H -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 34-43 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 43-61 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 64-77 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 66-83 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Wrong Time?

126 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 Wrong Time hard to play on drums?

57 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 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 Wrong Time?

14 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 24, 25, 37, 41, 49, 53 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED