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Unt. 2 · Wildfire (demo)

Unt. 2 · Wildfire (demo)
EXERCISE 18 OF 105
Groove M -- Part M
75 / 181 BARS COVERED
0 / 105 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
PART D
PART F
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART M
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
13 groovesCDMBBF+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 28
LAND · 28
RUN · 3
JOIN · 16
LINK · 10
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Unt. 2 on drums

181 bars at 270 BPM -- fast, and 2:41 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
270 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
181
LENGTH
2:41
DIFFICULTY
84/100

snare through bar 1, ride through bars 2-8, hi-hat through bars 9-17, ride through bars 18-33, kick and crashes through bars 34-37 and hi-hat through bars 38-45, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 21 and 54-60, and 8 more places -- 19.5% 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
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Unt. 2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

28 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 1, 29, 35, 36, 41, 45 and 43 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 76 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 -- C -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through Part F -- 5 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part M -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Bars 47-62 -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Unt. 2?

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

Is Unt. 2 hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 89 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

181 bars, about 2:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 76 exercises over 23 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 Unt. 2?

28 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 1, 29, 35, 36, 41, 45 and 43 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 181 BARS ANALYSED