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Wuh · gurt

Wuh · gurt
EXERCISE 22 OF 48
Groove Q
61 / 95 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, PART X
CHORUS
PART J
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesASXADJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wuh on drums

95 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 1:54 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
1:54
DIFFICULTY
72/100

hi-hat through bars 1-6, toms through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-14, toms through bars 15-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24 and toms through bars 25-26, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-2, 5-6 and 9-10, and 3 more places -- 12.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    1                2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o-o-o-o-o-o-|o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x---xxxxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Wuh -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 3, 4, 7, 8, 11, 12 and 23 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AD -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part S -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 27-44 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part X -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Wuh?

200 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 Wuh hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 85 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 1:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Wuh?

10 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 3, 4, 7, 8, 11, 12 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 95 BARS ANALYSED