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I Wish · Stevie Wonder

EXERCISE 1 OF 8
Groove C -- Verse (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 8 PASSED · 101 BARS LIT · IN THE VERSE
VERSE
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Wish on drums

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

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-3 and hi-hat through bars 4-109.

The beat

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.

    5                6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--xxx-xxx-xxx-xx|x-xxx-xxx-xxx-xx|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x------xx-------|x-x--x-xx-------|
I Wish -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 5 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  2. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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