Wagon Wheel · Darius Rucker

183 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 4:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Country / FolkJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
183
LENGTH
4:57
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 85% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-27, 29-67 and 69-99, and 4 more places -- 85% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 148 BPM
WAGON WHEEL · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 4 and 115.

LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 115 · LANDS ON BAR 116
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

183 bars across 5 sections: 171 keep time, 3 are fills, 3 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-99.

CHORUS
PART A
OUTRO
4 groovesCADS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wagon Wheel?

148 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 Wagon Wheel hard to play on drums?

47 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

183 bars, about 4:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 21 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 Wagon Wheel?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 4 and 115.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 183 BARS ANALYSED
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