Willie the Wimp · Stevie Ray Vaughan

153 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:21 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 82% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-12, 14-29 and 31-32, and 10 more places -- 81.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 140 BPM
WILLIE THE WIMP · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 53, 61 and 152.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 152 · LANDS ON BAR 153
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

153 bars across 4 sections: 146 keep time, 3 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 68-146.

CHORUS
OUTRO
3 groovesBFEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Willie the Wimp?

140 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 Willie the Wimp hard to play on drums?

60 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, mid 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 Willie the Wimp?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 53, 61 and 152.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED
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