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Wonderboy · Tenacious D

EXERCISE 5 OF 30
Groove D -- Part D
40 / 102 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
CHORUS
PART D
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART D
PART D
PART D
CHORUS 6
PART D
PART S14
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCDS14PS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wonderboy on drums

102 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 3:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-40, kick and crashes through bars 41-43, hi-hat through bars 44-73, silence through bars 74-77 and snare through bars 78-81, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-12, 17-19 and 25-31, and 5 more places -- 38.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 4, 16, 24, 36, 40, 43 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 9-54 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Bars 71-82 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 80-92 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Wonderboy?

105 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 Wonderboy hard to play on drums?

51 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Wonderboy?

5 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 4, 16, 24, 36, 40, 43 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED