Born To Be Wild · Steppenwolf

65 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 1:48 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
1:48
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 14 more places -- 27.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BORN TO BE WILD · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 32, 48, 53 and 3 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 53-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

65 bars across 11 sections: 35 keep time, 9 are fills, 11 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-15.

PART A
CHORUS
PART G
PART A
PART I
PART S6
8 groovesBAIGS6+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Born To Be Wild?

145 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 hard to play on drums?

47 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

65 bars, about 1:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Born To Be Wild?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 32, 48, 53 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 65 BARS ANALYSED
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