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Wii Party Theme · Nintendo

Wii Party Theme · Nintendo
EXERCISE 1 OF 17
Groove B -- Verse
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0 / 17 PASSED · 29 BARS LIT · IN THE VERSE, VERSE 2, VERSE 3
VERSE
CHORUS
VERSE 2
OUTRO
VERSE 3
2 groovesBEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wii Party Theme on drums

71 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 2:34 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
2:34
DIFFICULTY
68/100

hi-hat through bars 1-17, snare through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-49, snare through bars 50-57 and hi-hat through bars 58-71.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 7 more places -- 40.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xgxgxgxxgxxgxgg-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------x-x------|
Wii Party Theme -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 17, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through the Verse -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 15-34 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Wii Party Theme?

110 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 Wii Party Theme hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

71 bars, about 2:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Wii Party Theme?

3 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 17, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 71 BARS ANALYSED