What a Wonderful World (Acoustic) · Louis Armstrong

38 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 106 BPM, 2:08 of playing on hi-hat, snare and kick.

Jazz / BluesPop90 to 119 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
38
LENGTH
2:08
DIFFICULTY
23/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 96% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-25 -- 96.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 106 BPM
WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD (ACOUSTIC) · BAR 1
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

38 bars across 2 sections: 26 keep time and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-26.

OUTRO
BREAK
2 groovesAS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is What a Wonderful World (Acoustic)?

106 BPM, in 6/4, 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 What a Wonderful World (Acoustic) hard to play on drums?

23 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

38 bars, about 2:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 17 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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