I Wonder · Kanye West

95 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 3:58 of playing, on crash, snare and kick.

Hip Hop / ReggaeFunk / Soul90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
35/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 93% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-36, 39-54 and 71-95 -- 92.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 96 BPM
I WONDER · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

95 bars across 8 sections: 67 keep time, 1 is a stop and 27 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 70-95.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
OUTRO
6 groovesBS1S5AS7+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Wonder?

96 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 Wonder hard to play on drums?

35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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