As · Stevie Wonder

183 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 7:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Funk / SoulJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
183
LENGTH
7:27
DIFFICULTY
82/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 72, 80 and 88, and 30 more places -- 27.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 98 BPM
AS · BAR 88
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 53, 59, 71, 83, 93, 99 and 13 more.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 83 · LANDS ON BAR 84
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 93 · LANDS ON BAR 94

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

183 bars across 8 sections: 154 keep time, 19 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 32-52.

PART B
PART J
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesYCTJB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is As?

98 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 As hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

183 bars, about 7:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 19 sittings, about 23 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 As?

14 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 53, 59, 71, 83, 93, 99 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 183 BARS ANALYSED
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