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Wipe Out · The Surfaris

Wipe Out · The Surfaris
EXERCISE 1 OF 31
Groove C -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART E
PART F
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCFEKS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wipe Out on drums

106 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 2:38 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many notes a second it asks for the part that decides it.

TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
2:38
DIFFICULTY
39/100

toms through bars 2-31, ride through bars 32-43, toms through bars 44-55, ride through bars 56-67, toms through bars 68-79 and snare through bars 80-103, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-19 and 69-78 -- 25.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
T2 |XxxxxxXxxxxxXxxx|
Wipe Out -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 35, 39, 43, 59, 63, 67 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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, F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and Part F -- 7 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Bars 41-59 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Wipe Out?

162 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 Wipe Out hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many notes a second it asks for 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?

106 bars, about 2:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Wipe Out?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 35, 39, 43, 59, 63, 67 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED