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Wonderwall · Oasis

EXERCISE 2 OF 38
Groove I -- Part I
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCIRGS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wonderwall on drums

78 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 3:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
73/100

silence through bars 1-5 and ride through bars 6-78.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-11, 15 and 17, and 12 more places -- 32.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    17
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
RD |----x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--g-----x-----x---x-----x-----x-|
BD |x---x-----------x---x-----------|
Wonderwall -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 12, 16, 18, 19, 20, 24 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 27-40 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 47-69 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 44-53 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Wonderwall?

88 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Wonderwall hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Wonderwall?

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 12, 16, 18, 19, 20, 24 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED