Wild Child · Lou Reed

145 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 4:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Rock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
4:40
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-4, 7-9 and 11-12, and 23 more places -- 27.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 124 BPM
WILD CHILD · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 5, 13, 41, 42, 43, 45 and 20 more.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BARS 41-43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

145 bars across 8 sections: 109 keep time, 26 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-37.

CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCLBQS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wild Child?

124 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 Wild Child hard to play on drums?

50 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 4:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 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 Wild Child?

8 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 5, 13, 41, 42, 43, 45 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED
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