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Winds of Time · Wings of Steel

Winds of Time · Wings of Steel
EXERCISE 9 OF 99
Join Break to Break 2 (bars 1-3)
149 / 312 BARS COVERED
0 / 99 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE BREAK, BREAK 2
BREAK
BREAK 2
CHORUS
PART AI
PART S10
PART AS
PART Y
PART BF
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
18 groovesGAIYASS10+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 27
LAND · 27
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 4
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Winds of Time on drums

312 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 10:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
312
LENGTH
10:25
DIFFICULTY
76/100

snare through bars 1-11, hi-hat through bars 12-21, toms through bars 22-25, hi-hat through bars 26-33, toms through bars 34-35 and hi-hat through bars 36-68, and 26 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-13, 15 and 17-20, and 13 more places -- 21.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    12
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
Winds of Time -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

27 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 34 and 48 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 71 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 -- G -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AI -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-9 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 6-26 -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Winds of Time?

118 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 Winds of Time hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 86 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

312 bars, about 10:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 22 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 Winds of Time?

27 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 34 and 48 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 312 BARS ANALYSED