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Washed · Elevation Rhythm

EXERCISE 14 OF 66
Run H1 · Part H (bars 26-32)
52 / 127 BARS COVERED
0 / 66 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART H
PART J
PART C
PART Q
PART U
PART Y
OUTRO
10 groovesBAFQYU+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Washed on drums

127 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-28, ride through bars 29-36, hi-hat through bars 37-68, kick and crashes through bars 69-86 and snare through bars 87-94, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 10 more places -- 10.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |X-x-X-x-X-x-X-x-|
BD |x---x---------x-|
HF |x---------------|
Washed -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 27, 28, 32, 36, 44, 52 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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, Q -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Bars 24-34 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part H and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 39-57 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through Part Q and Part U -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 54-88 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part U and Part Y -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Washed?

140 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 Washed hard to play on drums?

53 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 12 sittings, about 29 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 Washed?

15 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 27, 28, 32, 36, 44, 52 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED