Wherever You Will Go · The Calling

92 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 3:17 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-27, 43 and 45-51, and 8 more places -- 46.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 112 BPM
WHEREVER YOU WILL GO · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 16, 20, 28, 36, 44, 52 and 8 more.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

92 bars across 7 sections: 62 keep time, 14 are fills, 1 is a stop and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-15.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
5 groovesHBJS1S6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wherever You Will Go?

112 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 Wherever You Will Go hard to play on drums?

43 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Wherever You Will Go?

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 16, 20, 28, 36, 44, 52 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED
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