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(What a) Wonderful World · Sam Cooke

EXERCISE 1 OF 12
Groove A -- Outro
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CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play (What a) Wonderful World on drums

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

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
2:04
DIFFICULTY
34/100

The time is kept on the snare the whole way through.

The beat

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.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
SD |--g-X-g-g-g-X-g-|
BD |x-----x---------|
(What a) Wonderful World -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- A, B -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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