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wiener · ascended from dust

wiener · ascended from dust
EXERCISE 1 OF 66
Groove F -- Chorus 2
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0 / 66 PASSED · 23 BARS LIT
PART B
CHORUS
PART I
PART S
PART X
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
BREAK
8 groovesS10FIXS+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play wiener on drums

115 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 90 BPM, 7:25 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
7:25
DIFFICULTY
72/100

hi-hat through bars 1-20, ride through bars 21-34, kick and crashes through bars 35-36, hi-hat through bars 37-52, ride through bars 53-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-76, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 77-78, and 4 more places -- 19.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    13
    1...........2...........3...........4...........5...........6...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
HH |------------------o-----------------o-----------------o-----------------|
SD |------------------------------------x-----------------------------------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
wiener -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 20, 33, 34, 52, 60, 64 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- F -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and Part S -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is wiener?

90 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 wiener hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 7:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 20 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 wiener?

15 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 20, 33, 34, 52, 60, 64 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED