The Wicked Side Of Me · Cold Driven

115 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 3:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-28, 30-32 and 54-56, and 6 more places -- 23.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 127 BPM
THE WICKED SIDE OF ME · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 17, 25, 45, 53, 65, 87 and 5 more.

LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66
LOOP · 127 BPM
BARS 87-90 · LANDS ON BAR 91 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 13 sections: 81 keep time, 11 are fills, 8 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 67-81.

PART B
PART G
PART J
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART V
CHORUS 3
8 groovesMVJBG+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Wicked Side Of Me?

127 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 The Wicked Side Of Me hard to play on drums?

57 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 The Wicked Side Of Me?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 17, 25, 45, 53, 65, 87 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED
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