I Wish · Stevie Wonder

109 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 4:09 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Funk / SoulJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 95% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-40 and 45-109 -- 95.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 105 BPM
I WISH · BARS 5-6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 4, 41, 42, 43 and 44.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 41-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 2 sections: 101 keep time, 5 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 45-109.

VERSE
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Wish?

105 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 Wish hard to play on drums?

59 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in I Wish?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 4, 41, 42, 43 and 44.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED
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