Wicked Game · Chris Isaak

131 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 4:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Jazz / BluesRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
4:40
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-3, 5-9 and 11-16, and 14 more places -- 42% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 112 BPM
WICKED GAME · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 33.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

131 bars across 9 sections: 114 keep time, 2 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 88-108.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART C
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBECFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wicked Game?

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 Wicked Game hard to play on drums?

56 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 4:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Wicked Game?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 33.

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