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Wither Away · 40 Below Summer

Wither Away · 40 Below Summer
EXERCISE 1 OF 38
Groove D -- Chorus
0 / 91 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 27 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART P
BREAK
OUTRO
5 groovesDHS8PS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wither Away on drums

91 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 4:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
72/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-56, snare through bars 57-64, silence through bars 65-72, hi-hat through bars 73-88 and kick and crashes through bars 89-91.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-7, 9-11 and 26-27, and 11 more places -- 33.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    9
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-----------x-------------------|
HH |----o---o-------o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x---x-----x---|
Wither Away -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 24, 28, 30 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H, G -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Wither Away?

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 Wither Away hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 4:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Wither Away?

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 24, 28, 30 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED