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Wicked Game · Chris Isaak

EXERCISE 5 OF 19
Groove D
121 / 131 BARS COVERED
0 / 19 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART E, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART C
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBECFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wicked Game on drums

131 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 4:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
4:40
DIFFICULTY
56/100

snare through bar 1, ride through bars 2-17, hi-hat through bars 18-33, ride through bars 34-49, hi-hat through bars 50-65 and ride through bars 66-89, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-3, 5-9 and 11-16, and 14 more places -- 42% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Wicked Game -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 33.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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, E -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 44-78 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Wicked Game?

112 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 Wicked Game hard to play on drums?

56 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 4:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Wicked Game?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 33.

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