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Wannabe · Staind

EXERCISE 15 OF 30
Groove K
70 / 87 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wannabe on drums

87 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 3:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
61/100

hi-hat through bar 1, snare through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-21, snare through bars 22-30, hi-hat through bars 31-42 and snare through bars 43-50, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 18, and 12 more places -- 47.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 5, 9, 21, 25, 29, 42 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 29-43 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Wannabe?

92 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 Wannabe hard to play on drums?

61 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Wannabe?

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 5, 9, 21, 25, 29, 42 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED