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Wishing Wells · Parkway Drive

EXERCISE 14 OF 70
Groove F (a two-bar phrase)
63 / 174 BARS COVERED
0 / 70 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART Q
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART O
PART AF
PART AK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesEWOQAF+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wishing Wells on drums

174 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 7:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
7:44
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-6, toms through bars 7-12, silence through bars 13-16, snare through bars 17-34, toms through bars 35-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-44, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 45-51 and 94-100 -- 8.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    45                               46
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
RD |--------x---x---x-------x-------|x---x---x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----------x---x-----------x---|x---------------x-x-x-x-----x---|
Wishing Wells -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 11, 24, 32, 35, 36 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 56 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 -- Q, V -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part S3 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 39-53 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part O -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Wishing Wells?

90 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Wells hard to play on drums?

60 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

174 bars, about 7:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 19 sittings, about 23 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 Wishing Wells?

13 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 11, 24, 32, 35, 36 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 174 BARS ANALYSED