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Wild Horses (with vocal) · Rolling Stones

EXERCISE 1 OF 21
Groove B -- Chorus 2
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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
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wild Horses (with vocal) on drums

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.

30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
63 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
5:16
DIFFICULTY
30/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-11, silence through bars 12-20, hi-hat through bars 21-36, silence through bars 37-42 and hi-hat through bars 43-65, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Wild Horses (with vocal) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 9-37 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 4 minutes.
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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