Wreckage · Pearl Jam

127 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 4:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
4:53
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-15 and 17-19, and 15 more places -- 37.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 104 BPM
WRECKAGE · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 16, 27, 39, 57, 58, 59 and 16 more.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28
LOOP · 104 BPM
BARS 57-61 · LANDS ON BAR 62 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 77 · LANDS ON BAR 78

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 7 sections: 94 keep time, 22 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 28-38.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART Y
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBAHYGAC+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wreckage?

104 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Wreckage hard to play on drums?

57 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 4:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Wreckage?

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 16, 27, 39, 57, 58, 59 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED
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