Is It Any Wonder? · Keane

93 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:06 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 75% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-19, 21-26 and 28-35, and 7 more places -- 75.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
IS IT ANY WONDER? · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 12, 20, 27, 36, 44, 52 and 5 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

93 bars across 3 sections: 79 keep time, 11 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 28-35.

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

Questions

What BPM is Is It Any Wonder??

120 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 Is It Any Wonder? hard to play on drums?

64 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Is It Any Wonder??

2 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 12, 20, 27, 36, 44, 52 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED
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