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White Wedding · Billy Idol

EXERCISE 17 OF 17
Play the whole song with the record
139 / 139 BARS COVERED
0 / 17 PASSED · 139 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, OUTRO 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play White Wedding on drums

139 bars of 4/4 at 147 BPM, about 3:47 of playing, on crash, 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
147 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
53/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-136 and kick and crashes through bars 137-139.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 7, and 40 more places -- 64.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
White Wedding -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 1, 2, 32, 72 and 90.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- C -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is White Wedding?

147 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 White Wedding 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 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 White Wedding?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 1, 2, 32, 72 and 90.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED