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wot · Shut The Funk Up!

wot · Shut The Funk Up!
EXERCISE 5 OF 38
Groove E
52 / 101 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
PART B
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
6 groovesDHBS9R+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play wot on drums

101 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:32 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
2:32
DIFFICULTY
53/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-49, snare through bars 50-58, hi-hat through bars 59-90, silence through bars 91-92 and snare through bars 93-101.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-20, 22-24 and 26-28, and 5 more places -- 24.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    18               19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|--------x-------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x---x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-x-----|--------x-------|
BD |x-------------x-|--x-x-----------|
wot -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 9, 13, 17, 21, 25, 29 and 26 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- H, D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 1-16 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and the Break -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 58-101 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is wot?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is wot hard to play on drums?

53 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 2:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 wot?

9 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 9, 13, 17, 21, 25, 29 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED