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Wherever You Are · One Ok Rock

EXERCISE 10 OF 40
Fill at bar 22 (a small one)
63 / 87 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART C
PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesIACRM+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wherever You Are on drums

87 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 4:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-14, hi-hat through bars 15-29, toms through bars 30-31, snare through bars 32-48 and ride through bars 49-65, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32-38, 40-46 and 66-72, and 3 more places -- 36.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    32
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---|
SD |--------x-----g---x-----x-----g-|
BD |x---x---------------x-----------|
Wherever You Are -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 22, 30, 31, 39, 47, 51 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, R -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 45-57 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 53-69 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Wherever You Are?

87 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Wherever You Are hard to play on drums?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 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 Wherever You Are?

10 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 22, 30, 31, 39, 47, 51 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED