What A Wonderful World · Joey Ramone

99 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 2:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPunk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
2:20
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-24, 34-38 and 42, and 10 more places -- 28.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 170 BPM
WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 33, 41, 49 and 7 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 12 sections: 70 keep time, 13 are fills, 2 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 58-64.

PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART H
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFDHBS11+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is What A Wonderful World?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is What A Wonderful World hard to play on drums?

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 2:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 7 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 What A Wonderful World?

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 33, 41, 49 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED
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