Little Wing · Stevie Ray Vaughan

102 bars, 6:28, at 60 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Jazz / BluesRockUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
6:28
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-14, 16-17 and 22-24, and 7 more places -- 24.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 60 BPM
LITTLE WING · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 40, 41, 46, 47, 48, 50 and 16 more.

LOOP · 60 BPM
BARS 40-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 60 BPM
BARS 46-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 81 · LANDS ON BAR 82

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 7 sections: 72 keep time, 22 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-39.

PART C
CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
5 groovesFPCMS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Little Wing?

60 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Little Wing hard to play on drums?

60 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 6:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Little Wing?

5 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 40, 41, 46, 47, 48, 50 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED
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