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Thetawaves · System of a Down

EXERCISE 6 OF 32
Groove A -- Part A
52 / 83 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
CHORUS
PART C
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGEAKCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Thetawaves on drums

83 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 2:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
2:39
DIFFICULTY
55/100

snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-18, ride through bars 19-27, hi-hat through bars 28-43, ride through bars 44-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-60, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-27, 45-52 and 76-82 -- 27.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
RD |--x-X-x---x-X-x-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Thetawaves -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 16, 37, 44, 68 and 83.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- G, E -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 34-48 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 45-72 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Thetawaves?

125 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 Thetawaves hard to play on drums?

55 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 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 2:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Thetawaves?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 16, 37, 44, 68 and 83.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED