It Wont Be Long · Windmill

205 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:32 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
205
LENGTH
4:32
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-36, 38-40 and 42-43, and 17 more places -- 26.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 180 BPM
IT WONT BE LONG · BAR 35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 5, 9, 32, 33, 49, 61 and 11 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 32-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

207 bars across 17 sections: 136 keep time, 18 are fills, 33 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 137-151.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
PART U
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART B
11 groovesOBUQJ+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is It Wont Be Long?

180 BPM, in 4/4, 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 It Wont Be Long hard to play on drums?

55 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

205 bars, about 4:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in It Wont Be Long?

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 5, 9, 32, 33, 49, 61 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 205 BARS ANALYSED
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