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Wasteland · 10 Years

Wasteland · 10 Years
EXERCISE 11 OF 42
2-bar fill at bar 17 and 1 more
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0 / 42 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wasteland on drums

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.

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
147 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
1:56
DIFFICULTY
89/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-6, hi-hat through bars 7-20, ride through bars 21-29, hi-hat through bars 30-36 and ride through bars 37-45, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    8                9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxxxgxgxgxgxgxg|xgxoxgxgxgxgxxo-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x--x----x---|
BD |x--x---------x-x|x--x-----xx--xx-|
Wasteland -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 26-63 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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