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Worn Thin, Left Wretched · justatest

EXERCISE 3 OF 41
Groove B -- Part B (a two-bar phrase)
24 / 87 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Worn Thin, Left Wretched on drums

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.

99 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
2:19
DIFFICULTY
99/100

snare through bar 1, ride through bars 2-13, hi-hat through bars 14-37, ride through bars 38-49, snare through bars 50-55 and ride through bars 56-87.

The beat

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.

    15
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
BD |--x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x-|
Worn Thin, Left Wretched -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 4, 13, 26, 27, 28 and 26 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 -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 14-41 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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