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Watching The Wheels (Ultimate Mix) · John Lennon

EXERCISE 1 OF 10
Groove A -- Outro
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OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Watching The Wheels (Ultimate Mix) on drums

70 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
41/100

hi-hat through bars 1-65 and ride through bars 66-70.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-29 and 32-37, and 2 more places -- 80% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Watching The Wheels (Ultimate Mix) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 4, 56 and 57.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 7 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 -- A -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Watching The Wheels (Ultimate Mix)?

80 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 Watching The Wheels (Ultimate Mix) hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

70 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Watching The Wheels (Ultimate Mix)?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 4, 56 and 57.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 70 BARS ANALYSED