Right Place, Wrong Time · Dr. John

74 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 2:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Funk / SoulRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 78% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-24, 33-54 and 63-74 -- 77.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 100 BPM
RIGHT PLACE, WRONG TIME · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 32 and 62.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

74 bars across 6 sections: 66 keep time, 2 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-24.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Right Place, Wrong Time?

100 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 Right Place, Wrong Time hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 2:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Right Place, Wrong Time?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 32 and 62.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED
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