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Wave of Death (Full Tab) · Municipal Waste

EXERCISE 14 OF 28
Fill at bar 18 and 52 (a small one)
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0 / 28 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wave of Death (Full Tab) on drums

80 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 1:48 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
1:48
DIFFICULTY
65/100

snare through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-17, kick and crashes through bars 18-20, hi-hat through bars 21-35, kick and crashes through bars 36-37 and hi-hat through bars 38-51, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-9, 12-17 and 21-27, and 3 more places -- 58.8% 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-x-----|
Wave of Death (Full Tab) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 1, 2, 11, 18, 20, 29 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 10-63 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 18-66 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Wave of Death (Full Tab)?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Wave of Death (Full Tab) hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 1:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Wave of Death (Full Tab)?

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 1, 2, 11, 18, 20, 29 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED