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Wagon Wheel · Darius Rucker

Wagon Wheel · Darius Rucker
EXERCISE 5 OF 16
Groove D -- Outro 2
154 / 183 BARS COVERED
0 / 16 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCADS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wagon Wheel on drums

183 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 4:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
183
LENGTH
4:57
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-101, snare through bars 102-115 and hi-hat through bars 116-183.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-27, 29-67 and 69-99, and 4 more places -- 85% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---------------|
HH |--------x-------|
SD |x---x---x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-------x-------|
Wagon Wheel -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 4 and 115.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. Bars 4-116 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 101-183 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Wagon Wheel?

148 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 Wagon Wheel hard to play on drums?

47 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

183 bars, about 4:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Wagon Wheel?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 4 and 115.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 183 BARS ANALYSED