Worn Thin, Left Wretched · justatest

87 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
2:19
DIFFICULTY
99/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-25 -- 13.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
WORN THIN, LEFT WRETCHED · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 4, 13, 26, 27, 28 and 26 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 26-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 56-70 · LANDS ON BAR 71 · PLAYED 15 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

87 bars across 7 sections: 49 keep time and 32 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-25.

PART B
PART E
PART F
PART I
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesJEBIF+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Worn Thin, Left Wretched?

150 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 Worn Thin, Left Wretched hard to play on drums?

99 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 2:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Worn Thin, Left Wretched?

7 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 4, 13, 26, 27, 28 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED
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