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Where the Wild Things Are · Luke Combs

EXERCISE 37 OF 37
Play the whole song with the record
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CHORUS
PART J
PART M
PART S4
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesARJMS4+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Where the Wild Things Are on drums

113 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 3:52 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
47/100

hi-hat through bars 1-64, snare through bars 65-72, toms through bars 73-80, silence through bars 81-84, toms through bars 85-88 and hi-hat through bars 89-113.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-19, 21-27 and 29-31, and 8 more places -- 51.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 36, 44, 47, 64, 71, 72 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- A, R -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-74 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 71-80 -- 8 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 78-89 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part P and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Where the Wild Things Are?

117 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 Where the Wild Things Are hard to play on drums?

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Where the Wild Things Are?

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 36, 44, 47, 64, 71, 72 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED