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Widower · Make Them Suffer

EXERCISE 24 OF 73
Groove K -- Outro 2
82 / 137 BARS COVERED
0 / 73 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT
PART A
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART W
PART AB
PART N
CHORUS 3
PART AK
PART A
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGNWAKA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Widower on drums

137 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
49/100

toms through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32, snare through bars 33-47, ride through bars 48-56 and snare through bars 57-64, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 14, and 15 more places -- 13.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    73
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-xx-xxx--xx-xx-|
Widower -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 6, 9, 11, 13, 15, 16 and 43 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- G -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AK -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part N and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part W -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Widower?

120 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 Widower hard to play on drums?

49 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Widower?

19 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 6, 9, 11, 13, 15, 16 and 43 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED