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Wherever You Will Go · The Calling

Wherever You Will Go · The Calling
EXERCISE 1 OF 29
Groove H -- Chorus
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0 / 29 PASSED · 38 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
5 groovesHBJS1S6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
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, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-60, silence through bars 61-63 and hi-hat through bars 64-92.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-27, 43 and 45-51, and 8 more places -- 46.3% 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 |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

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 16, 20, 28, 36, 44, 52 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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, B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 14-38 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 39-61 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
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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?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. 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 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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?

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 16, 20, 28, 36, 44, 52 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED