My Little Wish · Toe

161 bars at 171 BPM -- fast, and 3:46 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
171 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-10, 13-14 and 17-18, and 14 more places -- 20.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 171 BPM
MY LITTLE WISH · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 11, 12, 15, 16, 19, 20 and 36 more.

LOOP · 171 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 14 TIMES
LOOP · 171 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 171 BPM
BARS 22-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 171 BPM
BARS 35-38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

161 bars across 9 sections: 81 keep time, 42 are fills, 25 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 86-101.

CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART X
PART Z
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBZOXAI+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is My Little Wish?

171 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 My Little Wish 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 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 My Little Wish?

9 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 11, 12, 15, 16, 19, 20 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Toe drum parts

EVERY TOE CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →