Wild Is The Wind · Bon Jovi

149 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 4:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 39-45, 48-50 and 53, and 19 more places -- 37.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 145 BPM
WILD IS THE WIND · BAR 39
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 37, 46, 51, 57, 59, 60 and 18 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 59-60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 98-99 · LANDS ON BAR 100 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

149 bars across 11 sections: 97 keep time, 24 are fills, 1 is a stop and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 62-71.

COUNT-IN
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesLFS1OD+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wild Is The Wind?

145 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 Is The Wind hard to play on drums?

58 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Is The Wind?

6 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 37, 46, 51, 57, 59, 60 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED
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