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Born To Be Wild · Steppenwolf

EXERCISE 15 OF 28
Run G1 · Part G (bars 26-32)
50 / 65 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Born To Be Wild on drums

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

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

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
1:48
DIFFICULTY
47/100

hi-hat through bars 1-52, toms through bars 53-54, snare through bars 55-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-65.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- A, B -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-26 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 26-49 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 40-60 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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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