Wave to Earth · Love

77 bars, 4:56, at 62 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
62 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
4:56
DIFFICULTY
33/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-21, 26-27 and 30-33, and 5 more places -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 62 BPM
WAVE TO EARTH · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

77 bars across 8 sections: 69 keep time and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 29-51.

PART B
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDBCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wave to Earth?

62 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Wave to Earth hard to play on drums?

33 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 4:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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