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Wonderless · Pierce The Veil

EXERCISE 1 OF 44
Groove I -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
PART C
PART G
CHORUS
PART S8
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesIS8TCG+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wonderless on drums

111 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 5:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
5:25
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, toms through bars 17-20, snare through bars 21-23, kick and crashes through bars 24-25 and snare through bars 26-29, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-43, 63-65 and 68-69, and 1 more place -- 37.5% 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
CC |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Wonderless -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 53, 54, 55, 56, 66, 67 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- I, T -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Bars 27-40 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 43-59 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part Q -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 69-87 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Wonderless?

82 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 Wonderless hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 5:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Wonderless?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 53, 54, 55, 56, 66, 67 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED