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Wanderlust · Nightwish

EXERCISE 20 OF 58
Groove L -- Part L
76 / 144 BARS COVERED
0 / 58 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
PART A
PART F
CHORUS
PART L
PART A
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART L
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
8 groovesHALFZ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wanderlust on drums

144 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
72/100

hi-hat through bars 1-28, ride through bars 29-38, toms through bars 39-40, hi-hat through bars 41-68, ride through bars 69-78 and toms through bars 79-84, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-2, 5-6 and 9, and 6 more places -- 11.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 3, 4, 7, 8, 10, 12 and 42 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- A -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-24 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 25-41 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 29-83 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part V -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Wanderlust?

130 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 Wanderlust hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 13 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 Wanderlust?

13 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 3, 4, 7, 8, 10, 12 and 42 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED