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Wild Flower · The Cult

EXERCISE 1 OF 33
Groove F -- Chorus
0 / 119 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 36 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
PART D
CHORUS
PART E
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART I
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFDIHE+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wild Flower on drums

119 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-5 and hi-hat through bars 6-119.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-33, 62-67 and 95-109, and 1 more place -- 31.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-xxx-xxx-xxx-xx|
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-----x-|
Wild Flower -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 52, 53, 78, 110 and 118.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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, D -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 42-56 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 49-65 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part I -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 70-87 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Wild Flower?

130 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 Wild Flower hard to play on drums?

61 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Wild Flower?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 52, 53, 78, 110 and 118.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED