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Wheels · Foo Fighters

EXERCISE 1 OF 33
Groove E -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEIRBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wheels on drums

89 bars of 4/4 at a walking 81 BPM, 4:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.

TEMPO
81 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
44/100

ride through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-27, ride through bars 28-37, hi-hat through bars 38-51, ride through bars 52-59 and toms through bars 60-63, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-20, 22-26 and 38-44, and 1 more place -- 36.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    6                7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|x-x-----x-x-----|
Wheels -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 5, 21, 27, 35, 37, 45 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- E, I -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 6-41 -- 9 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through Part I and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 57-72 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 6 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Wheels?

81 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 Wheels hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 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 Wheels?

7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 5, 21, 27, 35, 37, 45 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED