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Waves · Gtuhrie Govan

Waves · Gtuhrie Govan
EXERCISE 20 OF 56
Join Part C to Chorus 2 (bars 36-38)
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0 / 56 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART AC
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesHANCAFAC+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Waves on drums

94 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 4:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
75/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-94.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-12 and 14, and 3 more places -- 15.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |X-x-X-x-X-x-X-x-X-x-o---x-x-o-o-|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x-------x-----------|
Waves -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 16, 23, 24, 36, 44, 48 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AN -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Waves?

78 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Waves hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 4:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Waves?

17 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 16, 23, 24, 36, 44, 48 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED