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Wax · Even Grosser

EXERCISE 6 OF 75
Groove AA -- Part AA
19 / 145 BARS COVERED
0 / 75 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART AA, PART AD
CHORUS
PART J
PART N
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART A
PART AA
PART AD
OUTRO
9 groovesFAGJSAA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 4
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wax on drums

145 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:13 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
67/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-4, ride through bars 5-6, hi-hat through bars 7-8, ride through bars 9-10 and hi-hat through bars 11-12, and 21 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18, 20-23 and 25-28, and 3 more places -- 12% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    21               22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|x-------x---x---|
HH |----o---o---o---|----o-----------|
SD |--------x---x---|--------x---x---|
BD |x-x---x---x---x-|xx-x--x---x--xx-|
Wax -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 8, 12, 13 and 48 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- J -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 19-49 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and Part S -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Wax?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Wax hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 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 Wax?

20 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 8, 12, 13 and 48 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED