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Born to Be Wild - New Version · Krokus

EXERCISE 16 OF 43
Run C3 · Chorus 3 (bars 36-40)
79 / 129 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART J
PART D
CHORUS 4
PART K
PART J
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCMDKJ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Born to Be Wild - New Version on drums

129 bars of 4/4 at 137 BPM, about 3:46 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
44/100

hi-hat through bars 1-72, snare through bars 73-74, kick and crashes through bars 75-80, snare through bars 81-82, hi-hat through bars 83-113 and snare through bars 114-123, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-10, 17-22 and 25, and 3 more places -- 22.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Born to Be Wild - New Version -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 39, 40, 64, 81, 82, 89 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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, D -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-41 -- 8 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  4. Bars 36-109 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 48-65 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 57-89 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Bars 91-124 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Born to Be Wild - New Version?

137 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 Born to Be Wild - New Version hard to play on drums?

44 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 8 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Born to Be Wild - New Version?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 39, 40, 64, 81, 82, 89 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED