I Wish You Roses · Kali Uchis

60 bars, 3:23, at 71 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
71 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
60
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
35/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 78% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-27, 31-47 and 53-55 -- 78.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 71 BPM
I WISH YOU ROSES · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 48 and 60.

LOOP · 71 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 71 BPM
BAR 60
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

60 bars across 4 sections: 51 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-47.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Wish You Roses?

71 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is I Wish You Roses hard to play on drums?

35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

60 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in I Wish You Roses?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 48 and 60.

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