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Wish You Were Here · Incubus

EXERCISE 1 OF 38
Groove E -- Chorus
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PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART M
CHORUS 3
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEAMRQFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wish You Were Here on drums

73 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 3:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
70/100

toms through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-12, toms through bars 13-24, snare through bars 25-32, toms through bars 33-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-44, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-12, 25-29 and 31-32, and 3 more places -- 41.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--g-g--x--x|
BD |x-----x---x-----|
Wish You Were Here -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 24, 30, 36 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- E -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part A -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 23-45 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 41-53 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Wish You Were Here?

85 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 You Were Here hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 You Were Here?

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 24, 30, 36 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED