The Wizard · Uriah Heep

90 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:34 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
2:34
DIFFICULTY
34/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 88% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-29, 32-34 and 37-39, and 2 more places -- 88.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 140 BPM
THE WIZARD · BAR 8
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 2 sections: 62 keep time, 24 are stops and 4 are silent.

OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Wizard?

140 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 Wizard hard to play on drums?

34 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 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 2:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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