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Waves · Polaris

EXERCISE 8 OF 38
Groove I
23 / 73 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART M
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDMWADQ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Waves on drums

73 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 2:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
2:52
DIFFICULTY
70/100

silence through bars 1-13, hi-hat through bars 14-47, snare through bars 48-55, hi-hat through bars 56-63, snare through bars 64-70 and ride through bars 71-73.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 65-71 -- 10.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    65                               66
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---------------g---------------|----------------g---------------|
RD |--------------------------------|x-------------------------------|
HH |--------------------------------|------------------------------o-|
SD |----g-g-g-g-g---x---g-g-g-g---g-|--g-g-g-g-g-g---x---ggggg-g-----|
BD |x---x---------x-------------x---|x---x---------x-------------x---|
Waves -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 12, 39, 41, 43, 45, 47 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- AD -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Waves?

102 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?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 2:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Waves?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 12, 39, 41, 43, 45, 47 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED