John Wayne · Billy Idol

89 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 3:52 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Rock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 51% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-24 and 33-51 -- 50.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 92 BPM
JOHN WAYNE · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 32, 52, 56, 61, 65, 81 and 1 more.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 7 sections: 73 keep time, 7 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-24.

CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesABJS5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is John Wayne?

92 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 John Wayne hard to play on drums?

50 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 John Wayne?

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 32, 52, 56, 61, 65, 81 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED
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