← SONGS

Wooden Ships · Joe Perry

Wooden Ships · Joe Perry
EXERCISE 13 OF 62
Join Chorus to Part C (bars 3-5)
62 / 115 BARS COVERED
0 / 62 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesAGEAUCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wooden Ships on drums

115 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 4:54 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

58 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
115
LENGTH
4:54
DIFFICULTY
58/100

hi-hat through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-12, snare through bars 13-15, hi-hat through bars 16-26 and snare through bars 27-34, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 13-15 and 17-19, and 14 more places -- 33% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------x--x-----|
Wooden Ships -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 4, 6, 7, 8, 12, 16 and 34 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G, E -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 4-43 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 3-17 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 35-51 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part E and the Chorus 3 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
START THE COURSE ↑

Questions

What BPM is Wooden Ships?

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 Wooden Ships hard to play on drums?

58 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 4:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 13 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Wooden Ships?

17 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 4, 6, 7, 8, 12, 16 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED