Wild Horses (with vocal) · Rolling Stones

83 bars, 5:16, at 63 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
63 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
5:16
DIFFICULTY
30/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 66% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-9, 21-23 and 25-27, and 13 more places -- 66.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 63 BPM
WILD HORSES (WITH VOCAL) · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 10, 28, 30, 32, 50, 58 and 5 more.

LOOP · 63 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 63 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 63 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 63 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

83 bars across 8 sections: 40 keep time, 11 are fills, 4 are stops and 27 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 43-49.

CHORUS
PART S3
CHORUS 2
BREAK
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBS3S7S5S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wild Horses (with vocal)?

63 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 (with vocal) hard to play on drums?

30 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 5:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Wild Horses (with vocal)?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 10, 28, 30, 32, 50, 58 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED
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