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Wicked Game · Social Distortion

EXERCISE 38 OF 53
Groove S -- Part S
144 / 156 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART S
9 groovesBCIPM+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
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.

41 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
41/100

snare through bars 2-33, ride through bars 34-41, hi-hat through bars 42-43, ride through bars 44-48, hi-hat through bars 49-53 and ride through bars 54-57, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-33, 58-73 and 114-116, and 1 more place -- 35.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    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

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 49, 57, 85, 89, 93, 97 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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, C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through Part C and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 52-77 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 107-114 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and Part S -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 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?

41 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 43 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 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?

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 49, 57, 85, 89, 93, 97 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED