Isn't She Lovely · Stevie Wonder

195 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 178 BPM, 6:34 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Funk / SoulJazz / Blues150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
178 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
195
LENGTH
6:34
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 68-70, 72-74 and 76, and 12 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 178 BPM
ISN'T SHE LOVELY · BAR 69
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 7, 19, 27, 34, 35, 43 and 32 more.

LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 178 BPM
BARS 34-35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

195 bars across 7 sections: 85 keep time, 38 are fills and 66 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-18.

PART G
PART Q
OUTRO
BREAK 2
7 groovesS7TGQD+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Isn't She Lovely?

178 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Isn't She Lovely hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

195 bars, about 6:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Isn't She Lovely?

15 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 7, 19, 27, 34, 35, 43 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 195 BARS ANALYSED
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