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Wave Of Mutilation · Pixies

EXERCISE 22 OF 22
Play the whole song with the record
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CHORUS
PART H
OUTRO
BREAK
3 groovesBHS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wave Of Mutilation on drums

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

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
1:59
DIFFICULTY
63/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-5, toms through bars 6-9, hi-hat through bars 10-21, toms through bars 22-25 and hi-hat through bars 26-28, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
Wave Of Mutilation -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- B, H -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-32 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Break -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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