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Woodpecker From Mars · Faith No More

EXERCISE 3 OF 42
5-bar fill at bar 26
12 / 122 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART H
PART E
CHORUS
PART AB
BREAK 2
10 groovesS11S6ABS1H+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Woodpecker From Mars on drums

122 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 138 BPM, 4:44 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
40/100

silence through bars 1-14, hi-hat through bars 15-16, ride through bars 17-18, toms through bars 19-40, silence through bars 41-43 and snare through bars 44-47, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20, 32-34 and 38-39 -- 8.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    20
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
CC |----------------------x-|
SD |---x-----x-----x------x-|
T2 |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx-|
Woodpecker From Mars -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 19, 20, 21, 22, 26, 27 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- E, H -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AB -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 19-32 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 32-68 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 44-73 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 71-88 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Woodpecker From Mars?

138 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Woodpecker From Mars hard to play on drums?

40 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 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 4:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 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 Woodpecker From Mars?

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 19, 20, 21, 22, 26, 27 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED