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Wrong Number · The Cure

EXERCISE 16 OF 32
Fill at bar 65, 103, 135 and 2 more (a small one)
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VERSE
CHORUS 2
VERSE 3
VERSE 4
CHORUS 4
VERSE 5
VERSE 6
6 groovesFHKNS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 7
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wrong Number on drums

175 bars of 4/4 at 121 BPM, about 5:47 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
121 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
175
LENGTH
5:47
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-5, kick and crashes through bars 6-9 and hi-hat through bars 10-175.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-24, 34-40 and 58-64, and 9 more places -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
FT |x------xx-x---x-|
Wrong Number -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 57, 65 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- F, H -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 6-29 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 30-58 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Verse 3 and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 76-91 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 92-153 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Wrong Number?

121 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 Wrong Number hard to play on drums?

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

175 bars, about 5:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 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 Wrong Number?

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 57, 65 and 7 more.

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