I Don't Know Why · Stevie Wonder

66 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 2:52 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
2:52
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 52% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-11, 14-15 and 22-31, and 5 more places -- 51.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 92 BPM
I DON'T KNOW WHY · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 36, 52 and 62.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

66 bars across 4 sections: 56 keep time, 3 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 37-51.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Don't Know Why?

92 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 I Don't Know Why hard to play on drums?

46 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 2:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 I Don't Know Why?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 36, 52 and 62.

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