Wichita Lineman · Glen Campbell

66 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 3:07 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopCountry / FolkUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6-10, and 5 more places -- 53% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 84 BPM
WICHITA LINEMAN · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

66 bars across 5 sections: 60 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-52.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBJGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wichita Lineman?

84 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 Wichita Lineman hard to play on drums?

39 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 9 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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.

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