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Wherever You Will Go · The Calling

Wherever You Will Go · The Calling
EXERCISE 18 OF 39
Groove J -- Part J
58 / 92 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
PART J
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesHCNS1JFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wherever You Will Go on drums

92 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 3:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-52, ride through bars 53-61, silence through bars 62-63, hi-hat through bars 64-76 and ride through bars 77-92.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-27, 43 and 45-51, and 1 more place -- 26.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 16, 20, 28, 36, 44, 52 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- H, C -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 37-55 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 49-69 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Wherever You Will Go?

112 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 Wherever You Will Go hard to play on drums?

53 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 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 Wherever You Will Go?

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 16, 20, 28, 36, 44, 52 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED