I Was Wrong · Social Distortion

116 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

RockAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 4-10, 28-34 and 52-58, and 7 more places -- 46.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 128 BPM
I WAS WRONG · BARS 4-5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 11, 19, 35, 43, 51, 59 and 7 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 10 sections: 83 keep time, 13 are fills, 15 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-10.

CHORUS
PART F
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART H
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCHFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Was Wrong?

128 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 Was Wrong hard to play on drums?

53 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?

116 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 I Was Wrong?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 11, 19, 35, 43, 51, 59 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED
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