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With Arms Wide Open · Creed

EXERCISE 1 OF 38
Groove J -- Outro
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COUNT-IN
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesJCUS1A+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play With Arms Wide Open on drums

73 bars, 4:10, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
82/100

silence through bars 1-7, ride through bars 8-9, silence through bars 10-12 and ride through bars 13-73.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-30, 33-34 and 43, and 5 more places -- 28.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-----------------------------x-|
RD |----x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
HH |--------------o-----------------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x---x-x-----x---x-|
HF |----x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
With Arms Wide Open -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 24, 26, 27 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- J -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 12 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is With Arms Wide Open?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is With Arms Wide Open hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 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 With Arms Wide Open?

12 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 24, 26, 27 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED