Where the Wild Things Are · Luke Combs

113 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 3:52 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Country / Folk90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 51% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-19, 21-27 and 29-31, and 8 more places -- 51.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 117 BPM
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 36, 44, 47, 64, 71, 72 and 9 more.

LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 7 sections: 83 keep time, 15 are fills, 4 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-35.

CHORUS
PART J
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesARJMS4+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Where the Wild Things Are?

117 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 Where the Wild Things Are hard to play on drums?

47 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Where the Wild Things Are?

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 36, 44, 47, 64, 71, 72 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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