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Wooden Jesus - TotD · Temple of the Dog

EXERCISE 1 OF 67
Groove B -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
PART F
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART Q
PART S
PART Y
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBSAKFQ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wooden Jesus - TotD on drums

118 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 80 BPM, 4:21 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
72/100

snare through bar 1, toms through bars 2-21, hi-hat through bars 22-37, toms through bars 38-45, hi-hat through bars 46-61 and ride through bars 62-69, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-20 and 38-44 -- 22% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    2            3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a
SD |-ggXgggg-gXg|-ggXggggXX-g|
T1 |------------|----------X-|
T2 |--------X---|------------|
FT |X-----------|X-----------|
BD |x-----x-----|x-----x-----|
Wooden Jesus - TotD -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 21, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 27 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AK -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part F -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 19-32 -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Bars 29-37 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Wooden Jesus - TotD?

80 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Wooden Jesus - TotD hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Wooden Jesus - TotD?

17 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 21, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED