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Wuthering Heights · Angra

EXERCISE 23 OF 40
Groove O
49 / 72 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, OUTRO, OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART G
CHORUS
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesJFIGS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wuthering Heights on drums

72 bars, 4:36, at 60 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-13, ride through bars 14-20, hi-hat through bars 21-31 and ride through bars 32-72.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14, 17 and 32, and 8 more places -- 17.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------xx------x|
Wuthering Heights -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 13, 28, 29 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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, G -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 16-43 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part F -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part F and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Wuthering Heights?

60 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Wuthering Heights hard to play on drums?

59 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 4:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 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 Wuthering Heights?

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 13, 28, 29 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED