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Wristwatch · MJ Lenderman

Wristwatch · MJ Lenderman
EXERCISE 15 OF 31
2-bar fill at bar 32
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0 / 31 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART D
PART G
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBGDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wristwatch on drums

86 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 3:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
44/100

hi-hat through bars 1-21, ride through bars 22-24, hi-hat through bars 25-33, ride through bars 34-42, hi-hat through bars 43-53 and ride through bars 54-64, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-24, 34 and 36-40, and 4 more places -- 33.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Wristwatch -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 3, 21, 32, 33, 35 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- G, B -- 7 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 25-44 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 50-84 -- 9 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Wristwatch?

97 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 Wristwatch hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Wristwatch?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 3, 21, 32, 33, 35 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED