Champagne Willie · Iron Front

150 bars at 225 BPM -- fast, and 2:40 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
225 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
2:40
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29, 31 and 33, and 6 more places -- 11.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 225 BPM
CHAMPAGNE WILLIE · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

23 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 8, 11, 12, 20, 21, 24 and 37 more.

LOOP · 225 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 225 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 225 BPM
BARS 20-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 225 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

150 bars across 15 sections: 75 keep time, 43 are fills, 16 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 122-128.

PART C
PART H
CHORUS
PART H
PART X
CHORUS 2
PART AJ
PART C
PART I
OUTRO
12 groovesNHAJBC+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Champagne Willie?

225 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Champagne Willie hard to play on drums?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 2:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 16 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Champagne Willie?

23 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 8, 11, 12, 20, 21, 24 and 37 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 150 BARS ANALYSED
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