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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? Lima Oscar Lima! · Pennines

EXERCISE 28 OF 42
16-bar fill at bar 70
74 / 130 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S8
PART C
PART H
PART R
PART AC
BREAK
PART S8
PART AT
OUTRO
11 groovesBDACS8CAT+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 4
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? Lima Oscar Lima! on drums

130 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 5:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
5:04
DIFFICULTY
67/100

silence through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-16, hi-hat through bars 17-26, snare through bars 27-43, hi-hat through bars 44-62 and silence through bars 63-69, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45 and 47-61 -- 14.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    45
    1e+a2e+a
HH |x-xxxxxx|
SD |--xx--xx|
BD |x---xx--|
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? Lima Oscar Lima! -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 7, 16, 18, 70, 71, 72 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- AC -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BD, C -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-32 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 28-41 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 41-63 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through Part S8 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? Lima Oscar Lima!?

88 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 Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? Lima Oscar Lima! hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 5:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? Lima Oscar Lima!?

5 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 7, 16, 18, 70, 71, 72 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED