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Wreckage · Pearl Jam

EXERCISE 22 OF 51
Groove M
90 / 127 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wreckage on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
4:53
DIFFICULTY
57/100

hi-hat through bars 1-86 and ride through bars 87-127.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|
Wreckage -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- B, AH -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 51-90 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part Y and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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