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Boogie Wonderland · Earth, Wind & Fire

EXERCISE 4 OF 18
Run B1 · Outro (bars 2-13)
136 / 159 BARS COVERED
0 / 18 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Boogie Wonderland on drums

159 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 4:49 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
61/100

hi-hat through bars 2-159.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-9, 11-13 and 15-17, and 24 more places -- 75.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 18, 42, 55, 64, 69, 97 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Outro 2 -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Boogie Wonderland?

132 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 Boogie Wonderland hard to play on drums?

61 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

159 bars, about 4:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 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 Boogie Wonderland?

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 18, 42, 55, 64, 69, 97 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 159 BARS ANALYSED