Watching The Wheels (Ultimate Mix) · John Lennon

70 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 80% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-29 and 32-37, and 2 more places -- 80% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 80 BPM
WATCHING THE WHEELS (ULTIMATE MIX) · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 4, 56 and 57.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

70 bars: 64 keep time, 3 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-37.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Watching The Wheels (Ultimate Mix)?

80 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 Watching The Wheels (Ultimate Mix) 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

70 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Watching The Wheels (Ultimate Mix)?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 4, 56 and 57.

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