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Wichita lineman · Glen

EXERCISE 15 OF 26
Groove L
57 / 66 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBGIKHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wichita lineman on drums

66 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 3:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
46/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-15, snare through bars 16-18, hi-hat through bars 19-38, ride through bars 39-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-46, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6-10, and 3 more places -- 22.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 61, 62, 63 and 66.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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, G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Bars 14-34 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 50-59 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 23 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?

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Wichita lineman?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 61, 62, 63 and 66.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 66 BARS ANALYSED