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Wild Eyes · Parkway Drive

EXERCISE 2 OF 62
Groove J -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
PART U
PART Z
CHORUS 2
PART AH
OUTRO 2
9 groovesJFUAAH+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wild Eyes on drums

118 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 4:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
75/100

silence through bars 1-14, kick and crashes through bars 15-16, snare through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-31, ride through bars 32-36 and snare through bars 37-45, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 37-39, and 3 more places -- 16.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    17                                                               18
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x--x-x--x--x-x--x---------------x--x-x--x--x-x--x---------------|------------------------x---x-----------x-----------------------|
Wild Eyes -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 24, 28, 32 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- J -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through Part F -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 25-47 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Wild Eyes?

112 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Wild Eyes hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 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 Wild Eyes?

14 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 24, 28, 32 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED