ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wreckage on drums

114 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 3:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 142 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 114
LENGTH: 3:13
DIFFICULTY: 65/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-17, hi-hat through bars 18-49, snare through bars 50-57, ride through bars 58-67, toms through bars 68-69 and kick and crashes through bars 70-73, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-15, 18-20 and 22-24, and 6 more places -- 28.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    9                                                10
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------x-----------x-----x-----------|------x-----------x-----x-----------x-----x-----|

Wreckage -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 16, 17, 21, 25, 33, 37 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
Through Part H and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
Bars 49-70 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
Through Part S7 -- 3 exercises, about 11 minutes.
and 5 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Wreckage?

142 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 Wreckage hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

114 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 13 sittings, about 23 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 Wreckage?

10 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 16, 17, 21, 25, 33, 37 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED