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Wonder · Natalie Merchant

Wonder · Natalie Merchant
EXERCISE 1 OF 49
Groove D -- Part D
0 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 33 BARS LIT
PART D
PART F
PART D
PART F
CHORUS
PART D
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCNDFVFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 8
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wonder on drums

120 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 4:09 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
47/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-50, toms through bars 51-53, snare through bars 54-57, toms through bars 58-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-93, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-5, 8 and 10, and 17 more places -- 27.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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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---x-|
Wonder -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 6, 17, 18, 33, 34, 42 and 12 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 -- D, C -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 10-41 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and the Chorus 2 -- 9 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Bars 104-116 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Wonder?

115 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 Wonder hard to play on drums?

47 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 9 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Wonder?

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 6, 17, 18, 33, 34, 42 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED