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Wuthering Heights · Kate Bush

EXERCISE 5 OF 28
Groove G -- Part G
66 / 97 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART G
PART S1
CHORUS
PART G
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCEDS1GFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wuthering Heights on drums

97 bars, 5:07, at 61 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
61 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
5:07
DIFFICULTY
42/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, silence through bars 2-12 and hi-hat through bars 13-97.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15, 17 and 19, and 23 more places -- 30.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x---|
BD |x---x-------|
Wuthering Heights -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 42, 43, 45 and 48.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- D, C, E -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part G and Part E -- 7 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Bars 51-92 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 64-93 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Wuthering Heights?

61 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?

42 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 5:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 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 Wuthering Heights?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 42, 43, 45 and 48.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED