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Wonderful · Everclear

EXERCISE 10 OF 31
Hold Groove A for 8 bars -- Chorus (bars 8-15)
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0 / 31 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesAFBGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wonderful on drums

103 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 4:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
50/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 11 more places -- 42.7% 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-x-x-x-o-|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |x-x-------x-----|
Wonderful -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 12, 20, 27, 39, 46, 50 and 9 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 -- A, F -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-47 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part F and Part G -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 44-72 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Wonderful?

94 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 Wonderful hard to play on drums?

50 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Wonderful?

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 12, 20, 27, 39, 46, 50 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED