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Wish · Nine Inch Nails

EXERCISE 12 OF 27
Fill at bar 44 (a small one)
105 / 122 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART G
PART A
PART G
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesMAGJKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wish on drums

122 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:37 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
78/100

snare through bars 1-26, hi-hat through bars 27-34, snare through bars 35-52, hi-hat through bars 53-68, toms through bars 69-76 and hi-hat through bars 77-122.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 77-84, 87-88 and 91-122 -- 34.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    77
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |-gXgxgXgxgXgxgXg|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Wish -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 21, 22, 44 and 48.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- M -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D (a two-bar phrase) -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part J -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part J and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Wish?

135 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 Wish hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Wish?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 21, 22, 44 and 48.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED