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Writing On The Walls · Underoath

EXERCISE 37 OF 65
2-bar fill at bar 89
105 / 174 BARS COVERED
0 / 65 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART C
PART H
PART S
CHORUS
PART AN
OUTRO
11 groovesQS11HSAN+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Writing On The Walls on drums

174 bars at 184 BPM -- fast, and 3:47 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
184 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-7, kick and crashes through bars 8-14, hi-hat through bars 15-16, snare through bars 17-33, hi-hat through bars 34-52 and snare through bars 53-64, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 50-51, 58-59 and 70-71, and 19 more places -- 19.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    116
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---g---x---g---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |----------x-x---|
Writing On The Walls -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 21, 22, 23, 29, 30, 31 and 30 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- Q, Y -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part H -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Bars 51-73 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part S and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 12 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Writing On The Walls?

184 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 Writing On The Walls hard to play on drums?

47 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

174 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 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 Writing On The Walls?

20 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 21, 22, 23, 29, 30, 31 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 174 BARS ANALYSED