Be My Wife · David Bowie

83 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 3:03 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Rock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 25 more places -- 34.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 108 BPM
BE MY WIFE · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 5, 7, 29 and 55.

LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

83 bars across 4 sections: 75 keep time, 4 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-54.

PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesIBPS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Be My Wife?

108 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 Be My Wife hard to play on drums?

54 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Be My Wife?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 5, 7, 29 and 55.

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