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EXERCISE 15 OF 54
Groove F -- Part F
61 / 144 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
PART D
PART F
PART J
CHORUS
PART AC
PART A
OUTRO
10 groovesPAXAACJ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wither on drums

144 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 2:52 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
2:52
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-9, ride through bars 10-25, snare through bars 26-39, hi-hat through bars 40-55, snare through bars 56-63 and hi-hat through bars 64-65, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 112-118, 120-126 and 128-134, and 1 more place -- 17.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    112              113
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
SD |--r-----x---r-g-|r-g-r---r---r-g-|
BD |x---x-x---------|------x---------|
HF |----g---g---g---|g---g---g---g---|
Wither -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 24, 25, 27, 29, 33, 37 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- AX -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P, J -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part J -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-26 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 24-45 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part AC -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Wither?

210 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Wither hard to play on drums?

57 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 2:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Wither?

14 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 24, 25, 27, 29, 33, 37 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED