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Wind Of Change · Scorpions

EXERCISE 8 OF 36
Groove H -- Part H
34 / 71 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART N
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
6 groovesCNHS7S1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wind Of Change on drums

71 bars of 4/4 at a walking 76 BPM, 3:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
41/100

silence through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-11, hi-hat through bars 12-23, ride through bars 24-35, hi-hat through bars 36-43 and ride through bars 44-63, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 9 and 25, and 7 more places -- 26.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Wind Of Change -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 5, 11, 13, 23, 29, 35 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- D, C -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part N and the Chorus 3 -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Wind Of Change?

76 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 Wind Of Change hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

71 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 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 Wind Of Change?

9 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 5, 11, 13, 23, 29, 35 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 71 BARS ANALYSED