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We Want Fun · Andrew W.K.

EXERCISE 7 OF 21
Groove E
77 / 93 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
4 groovesDBS5S6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play We Want Fun on drums

93 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 4:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
66/100

toms through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, toms through bars 25-26, hi-hat through bars 27-48, snare through bars 49-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-73, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-19, 21-23 and 27-41, and 7 more places -- 67.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
We Want Fun -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 26, 50, 58, 59, 82 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is We Want Fun?

92 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 We Want Fun hard to play on drums?

66 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?

93 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 We Want Fun?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 26, 50, 58, 59, 82 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED