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Wavelength · Whirr, Nick Bassett, Joseph Bautista, Devin Nunes, Eduardo Salgado, Laurence Rivera

Wavelength · Whirr, Nick Bassett, Joseph Bautista, Devin Nunes, Eduardo Salgado, Laurence Rivera
EXERCISE 11 OF 33
Run C1 · Part C (bars 1-13)
55 / 77 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFCLKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wavelength on drums

77 bars of 4/4 at a walking 93 BPM, 3:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
47/100

ride through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-9, hi-hat through bars 10-26, snare through bars 27-30, hi-hat through bars 31-42 and ride through bars 43-45, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 13 and 15, and 18 more places -- 32.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
Wavelength -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 8, 16, 22 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- F, E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 21-46 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 37-59 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Wavelength?

93 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 Wavelength hard to play on drums?

47 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 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 Wavelength?

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 8, 16, 22 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED