Wicked Garden · Stone Temple Pilots

78 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 4:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-23 and 42-52 -- 38.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 78 BPM
WICKED GARDEN · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 24, 41 and 6 more.

LOOP · 78 BPM
BARS 1-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 78 BPM
BARS 73-76 · LANDS ON BAR 77 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

78 bars across 7 sections: 58 keep time, 12 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-23.

CHORUS
PART G
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEKGIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wicked Garden?

78 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 Garden hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Wicked Garden?

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 24, 41 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED
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