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"Wicked Game" · social distortion

EXERCISE 23 OF 60
Join Part G to Part B (bars 59-61)
122 / 156 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, PART B
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART G
PART B
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART V
PART C
PART I
9 groovesEBCIG+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play "Wicked Game" on drums

156 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 5:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
5:16
DIFFICULTY
43/100

snare through bars 2-25, hi-hat through bars 26-45, ride through bars 46-50, snare through bars 51-55, ride through bars 56-57 and snare through bars 58-65, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-25, 58-64 and 71, and 1 more place -- 22.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |------------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

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 33, 41, 49, 57, 65, 69 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Bars 41-106 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 49-74 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 59-90 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part Q -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Bars 105-122 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is "Wicked Game"?

118 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?

43 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 5:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 "Wicked Game"?

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 33, 41, 49, 57, 65, 69 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED