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Wet Sand · Red Hot Chili Peppers

EXERCISE 32 OF 61
Join Part I to Part G (bars 65-67)
67 / 110 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I, PART G
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART D
PART I
PART G
PART M
PART I
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesTIAGGB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wet Sand on drums

110 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 5:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
5:03
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-71, ride through bars 72-94, toms through bars 95-99 and snare through bars 100-110.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-40, 56-58 and 60-65 -- 16.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x-----|
Wet Sand -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 24, 31, 44, 45, 46, 53 and 25 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- I, B -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 25-44 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through Part G -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 47-67 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 63-72 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Wet Sand?

87 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 Wet Sand hard to play on drums?

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 5:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 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 Wet Sand?

14 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 24, 31, 44, 45, 46, 53 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED