Wave Of Mutilation · Pixies

61 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 1:59 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunk120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
1:59
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 14-20 and 32-34, and 2 more places -- 36.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 133 BPM
WAVE OF MUTILATION · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 21, 25, 35 and 4 more.

LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

61 bars across 4 sections: 42 keep time, 10 are fills, 3 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-20.

CHORUS
PART H
OUTRO
BREAK
3 groovesBHS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wave Of Mutilation?

133 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 Wave Of Mutilation hard to play on drums?

63 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

61 bars, about 1:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 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 Mutilation?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 21, 25, 35 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 61 BARS ANALYSED
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