Wild Horses · The Rolling Stones

82 bars, 4:45, at 69 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

RockJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
69 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
4:45
DIFFICULTY
35/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-10, 21 and 23, and 15 more places -- 58.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 69 BPM
WILD HORSES · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 74.

LOOP · 69 BPM
BAR 74 · LANDS ON BAR 75
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

82 bars across 8 sections: 51 keep time, 1 is a fill, 3 are stops and 26 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 44-64.

CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
PART S5
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBDS7S5S3+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wild Horses?

69 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Wild Horses hard to play on drums?

35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 4:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Horses?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 74.

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