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WIRED · Basement

EXERCISE 5 OF 34
Groove K -- Part K (a two-bar phrase)
16 / 85 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
PART B
PART G
PART K
PART I
OUTRO
8 groovesPBKGI+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play WIRED on drums

85 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
2:23
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-20, snare through bars 21-30, silence through bars 31-33, hi-hat through bars 34-47 and snare through bars 48-58, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 59-64, 67-73 and 76 -- 18.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    69
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
WIRED -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 20, 21, 22, 47, 48, 49 and 12 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 -- P -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K, B -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-30 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 23-54 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and the Outro -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is WIRED?

150 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 WIRED hard to play on drums?

52 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 2:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 WIRED?

7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 20, 21, 22, 47, 48, 49 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED