Wax Wings · Periphery

227 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 96 BPM, 7:47 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetal90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
227
LENGTH
7:47
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 151-157, 160 and 183-189, and 3 more places -- 11.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 96 BPM
WAX WINGS · BARS 151-152
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 80 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 18, 19, 20 and 74 more.

LOOP · 96 BPM
BARS 8-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BARS 18-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

227 bars across 19 sections: 100 keep time, 80 are fills, 5 are stops and 26 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 85-91.

PART G
PART Q
PART AF
PART AI
BREAK 2
PART BP
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
13 groovesBTAIBPQG+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wax Wings?

96 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Wax Wings hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

227 bars, about 7:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 68 exercises over 23 sittings, about 25 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 Wax Wings?

22 fills to learn, played 80 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 18, 19, 20 and 74 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 227 BARS ANALYSED
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