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White Wedding (Pts. 1 & 2) · Billy Idol

EXERCISE 8 OF 28
Run C1 · Part C (bars 2-12)
286 / 309 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
CHORUS
VERSE
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
VERSE 3
VERSE 4
4 groovesBOCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play White Wedding (Pts. 1 & 2) on drums

309 bars of 4/4 at 147 BPM, about 8:24 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the speed of the hand keeping time.

TEMPO
147 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
309
LENGTH
8:24
DIFFICULTY
63/100

hi-hat through bars 2-309.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 56 more places -- 47.7% 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 |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
White Wedding (Pts. 1 & 2) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 31, 57, 65, 66, 71, 79 and 1 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 -- B, O -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 2-154 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 13-190 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is White Wedding (Pts. 1 & 2)?

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 (Pts. 1 & 2) hard to play on drums?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the speed of the hand keeping time. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

309 bars, about 8:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. 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 (Pts. 1 & 2)?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 31, 57, 65, 66, 71, 79 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 309 BARS ANALYSED