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Wichita Lineman · Glen Campbell

EXERCISE 7 OF 14
Groove G -- Part G
55 / 66 BARS COVERED
0 / 14 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBJGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wichita Lineman on drums

66 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 3:07 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
39/100

snare through bars 1-18, hi-hat through bars 19-22, snare through bars 23-35, hi-hat through bars 36-38, snare through bars 39-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-56, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6-10, and 5 more places -- 53% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Wichita Lineman -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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, J -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 17-56 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Wichita Lineman?

84 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 Wichita Lineman hard to play on drums?

39 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 9 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, 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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 66 BARS ANALYSED