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Wires · Athlete

Wires · Athlete
EXERCISE 1 OF 16
Groove C -- Chorus
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0 / 16 PASSED · 23 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
5 groovesCBGS1S6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wires on drums

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

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

TEMPO
65 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-4 and ride through bars 5-67.

The beat

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.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x--xx---x-|
Wires -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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, B -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 9-43 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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