Born To Be Wild · Steppenwolf

127 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 3:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 21 more places -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 146 BPM
BORN TO BE WILD · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 33, 48, 49 and 8 more.

LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 146 BPM
BARS 48-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 12 sections: 91 keep time, 15 are fills, 5 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-32.

CHORUS
PART F
PART L
PART N
PART C
PART F
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBFNCL+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Born To Be Wild?

146 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?

62 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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?

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 33, 48, 49 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED
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