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Wandering, Never Wondering (There Exists A Shade) · Foreground Eclipse

EXERCISE 16 OF 90
Fill at bar 20 (a small one)
66 / 171 BARS COVERED
0 / 90 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART E
PART E
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART AC
PART AK
BREAK
16 groovesUS20ODAC+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 5
JOIN · 19
LINK · 6
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wandering, Never Wondering (There Exists A Shade) on drums

171 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:21 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
55/100

snare through bars 1-28, hi-hat through bars 29-60, snare through bars 61-68, hi-hat through bars 69-76, snare through bars 77-110 and toms through bars 111-120, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 77-81, 88 and 99-104, and 2 more places -- 12.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    77
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Wandering, Never Wondering (There Exists A Shade) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 8, 18, 20, 22, 24, 72 and 24 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 73 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 -- U, O -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-9 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-19 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 13-91 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 23-36 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Bars 27-44 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Wandering, Never Wondering (There Exists A Shade)?

180 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 Wandering, Never Wondering (There Exists A Shade) 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

171 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 73 exercises over 19 sittings, about 27 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 Wandering, Never Wondering (There Exists A Shade)?

16 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 8, 18, 20, 22, 24, 72 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 171 BARS ANALYSED