Pinball Wizard · The Who

82 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 2:37 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockProgressive120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
2:37
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 66-82 -- 26.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 125 BPM
PINBALL WIZARD · BAR 68
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 17, 29, 38, 48 and 65.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

82 bars across 9 sections: 48 keep time, 5 are fills, 2 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 66-82.

PART D
PART F
PART M
PART S
PART Y
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesADS8FMD+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pinball Wizard?

125 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Pinball Wizard hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 2:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 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 Pinball Wizard?

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 17, 29, 38, 48 and 65.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED
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