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Wise Guy · Burning Heads

Wise Guy · Burning Heads
EXERCISE 29 OF 30
Run J3 · Outro 2 (bars 62-67)
63 / 67 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesIAJNQ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wise Guy on drums

67 bars at 188 BPM -- fast, and 1:23 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
188 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
1:23
DIFFICULTY
56/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-15, silence through bars 16-17 and snare through bars 18-67.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-26, 31-33 and 35-42 -- 29.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    19
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
SD |---x-----x-----x-----x--|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
Wise Guy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 4, 6, 10, 12, 18, 34 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- I -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J, B -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-35 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part J and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part N -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  6. Bars 53-62 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Wise Guy?

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

Is Wise Guy hard to play on drums?

56 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 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 1:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Wise Guy?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 4, 6, 10, 12, 18, 34 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 67 BARS ANALYSED