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Wishing Well (Live) · Bad Company

EXERCISE 1 OF 13
Groove A -- Chorus
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CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesADFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wishing Well (Live) on drums

115 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
48/100

hi-hat through bars 1-49, ride through bars 50-56, hi-hat through bars 57-113 and kick and crashes through bars 114-115.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-14, 16-21 and 23-36, and 5 more places -- 86.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Wishing Well (Live) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 15, 37, 70, 114 and 115.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- A -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. Bars 46-61 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Wishing Well (Live)?

120 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 Wishing Well (Live) hard to play on drums?

48 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Wishing Well (Live)?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 15, 37, 70, 114 and 115.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED