Wasteland · 10 Years

71 bars of 4/4 at 147 BPM, about 1:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
147 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
1:56
DIFFICULTY
89/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 8-9, 11-13 and 16-17, and 2 more places -- 16.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 147 BPM
WASTELAND · BARS 8-9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 6, 14, 17, 18, 20, 22 and 20 more.

LOOP · 147 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 147 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 147 BPM
BARS 17-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 147 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

71 bars across 8 sections: 29 keep time, 26 are fills and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-13.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesEDNSS7+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wasteland?

147 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 Wasteland hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

71 bars, about 1:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 12 sittings, about 23 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 Wasteland?

10 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 6, 14, 17, 18, 20, 22 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 71 BARS ANALYSED
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