The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald · Gordon Lightfoot

139 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 93 BPM, 4:29 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockCountry / Folk90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
33/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 88% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-13, 15-22 and 24-26, and 13 more places -- 88.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 93 BPM
THE WRECK OF THE EDMUND FITZGERALD · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 5, 23, 27, 49, 53, 77 and 3 more.

LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

139 bars across 2 sections: 124 keep time, 9 are fills, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 103-130.

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

Questions

What BPM is The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald?

93 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald hard to play on drums?

33 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 4:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 30 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 The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 5, 23, 27, 49, 53, 77 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED
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