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Wage Slaves · All Shall Perish

EXERCISE 5 OF 62
Groove AB -- Part AB (a two-bar phrase)
20 / 96 BARS COVERED
0 / 62 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART AB
PART D
PART K
CHORUS
PART AG
PART AB
OUTRO
12 groovesOABAXKAG+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wage Slaves on drums

96 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 4:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
77/100

snare through bars 1-14, hi-hat through bars 15-39, snare through bars 40-59, toms through bars 60-61, hi-hat through bars 62-71 and silence through bars 72-73, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 80-82, 84-86 and 88-90, and 1 more place -- 13% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    80                               81
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|----------------x-x---x---------|
BD |x-----x-----x---------------x-x-|x-----------x-x-----x-------x---|
Wage Slaves -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 and 37 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- AX -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AG -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AB -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Break 2 and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Break 2 and Part D -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part K -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Wage Slaves?

92 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 Wage Slaves hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 4:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 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 Wage Slaves?

15 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 and 37 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED