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Wall · Good Kid

EXERCISE 1 OF 28
Groove H
0 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGOCBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wall on drums

120 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 2:49 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
2:49
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-20, snare through bars 21-34, hi-hat through bars 35-56, snare through bars 57-70 and hi-hat through bars 71-86, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22, 24 and 26, and 15 more places -- 15.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-------x-----|
Wall -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 20, 35, 36, 56, 71, 72 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- H, O -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-37 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Bars 22-73 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 49-79 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 77-90 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Wall?

170 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 Wall hard to play on drums?

56 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?

120 bars, about 2:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Wall?

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 20, 35, 36, 56, 71, 72 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED