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Born To Be Wild · Steppenwolf

EXERCISE 1 OF 41
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 41 PASSED · 26 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Born To Be Wild on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
62/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-40, ride through bars 41-47, kick and crashes through bars 48-53, toms through bars 54-57 and hi-hat through bars 58-65, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, F -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part J and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 54-125 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 65-97 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 94-127 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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