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Wings Of Feather And Wax · Killer Be Killed

Wings Of Feather And Wax · Killer Be Killed
EXERCISE 3 OF 53
Groove Z -- Part Z
81 / 155 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Z
CHORUS
PART U
PART X
PART Z
PART AB
PART AC
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCABACAEU+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wings Of Feather And Wax on drums

155 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 3:21 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
60/100

hi-hat through bars 3-16, snare through bars 17-42, hi-hat through bars 43-48, toms through bars 49-50, hi-hat through bars 51-58 and snare through bars 59-72, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-8, 11-16 and 19-24, and 14 more places -- 48.1% 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
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|
Wings Of Feather And Wax -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 17, 18, 25, 26, 33, 34 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- C, X -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part U -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 79-94 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part Z and Part AB -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Wings Of Feather And Wax?

185 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Wings Of Feather And Wax hard to play on drums?

60 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 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 Wings Of Feather And Wax?

13 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 17, 18, 25, 26, 33, 34 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED