Dr. Wily Stage 1 · Mega man 2

56 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 1:15 of it without a break -- on hi-hat, snare and kick.

150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
56
LENGTH
1:15
DIFFICULTY
29/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-16, 21-24 and 28, and 2 more places -- 53.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 180 BPM
DR. WILY STAGE 1 · BAR 1
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

56 bars across 7 sections: 45 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-16.

CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesAEGBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dr. Wily Stage 1?

180 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 Dr. Wily Stage 1 hard to play on drums?

29 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many notes a second it asks for the part that decides it. The beat itself is 11 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

56 bars, about 1:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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