Wires · Athlete

67 bars, 4:07, at 65 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, snare, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
65 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-20, 34-40 and 43-50 -- 37.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 65 BPM
WIRES · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 42 and 60.

LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

67 bars across 7 sections: 56 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-33.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
5 groovesCBGS1S6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wires?

65 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Wires hard to play on drums?

49 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 4:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Wires?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 42 and 60.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 67 BARS ANALYSED
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