Wharf Rat · Grateful Dead

217 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 7:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Rock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
217
LENGTH
7:32
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-8, 15 and 17, and 15 more places -- 32.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 115 BPM
WHARF RAT · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 10, 12, 38, 141, 142, 143 and 9 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
LOOP · 115 BPM
BARS 141-143 · LANDS ON BAR 144 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

217 bars across 21 sections: 141 keep time, 16 are fills, 11 are stops and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 40-74.

CHORUS
BREAK
PART V
14 groovesDS5VAJAO+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wharf Rat?

115 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Wharf Rat hard to play on drums?

64 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

217 bars, about 7:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 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 Wharf Rat?

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 10, 12, 38, 141, 142, 143 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 217 BARS ANALYSED
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