(What a) Wonderful World · Sam Cooke

66 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 2:04 of playing, on crash, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
2:04
DIFFICULTY
34/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 25 more places -- 56.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 128 BPM
(WHAT A) WONDERFUL WORLD · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 38.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

66 bars across 3 sections: 63 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-29.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is (What a) Wonderful World?

128 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 (What a) Wonderful World hard to play on drums?

34 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 2:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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.

How many fills are in (What a) Wonderful World?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 38.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 66 BARS ANALYSED
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