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Wash It All Away · Five Finger Death Punch

EXERCISE 31 OF 45
Join Part O to Part S (bars 73-75)
95 / 114 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O, PART S
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART O
PART S
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDEOSS10+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wash It All Away on drums

114 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, snare through bars 25-27, hi-hat through bars 28-47, snare through bars 48-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-83, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 28-30 and 32-34, and 8 more places -- 41.5% 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
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Wash It All Away -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 8, 24, 25, 26, 27, 31 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, O -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 13-28 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part O -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part S -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 71-88 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Wash It All Away?

125 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 Wash It All Away hard to play on drums?

50 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?

114 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Wash It All Away?

11 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 8, 24, 25, 26, 27, 31 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED