Wild International · One Day As A Lion

80 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 3:46 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Hip Hop / ReggaeRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-20 and 29-44 -- 40% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 85 BPM
WILD INTERNATIONAL · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 1, 2, 56 and 72.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

80 bars across 8 sections: 68 keep time and 4 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-20.

VERSE
CHORUS
VERSE 2
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEFHJKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wild International?

85 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 International hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Wild International?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 1, 2, 56 and 72.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED
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