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Wild Thing · Jimi Hendrix

EXERCISE 6 OF 18
Join Chorus to Part A (bars 11-13)
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0 / 18 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wild Thing on drums

74 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 3:48 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
38/100

hi-hat through bars 3-12, snare through bars 13-20, hi-hat through bars 21-33, toms through bars 34-38, hi-hat through bars 39-50 and snare through bars 51-57, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-11, 21-32 and 39-49, and 1 more place -- 65.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 12, 50 and 73.

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 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 9-33 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 21-60 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Wild Thing?

78 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 Thing hard to play on drums?

38 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Thing?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 12, 50 and 73.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED