Wipe Out · The Surfaris

106 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 2:38 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Pop150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
2:38
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-19 and 69-78 -- 25.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 162 BPM
WIPE OUT · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 35, 39, 43, 59, 63, 67 and 2 more.

LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40
LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 7 sections: 67 keep time, 8 are fills, 23 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-19.

CHORUS
PART E
PART F
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCFEKS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wipe Out?

162 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Wipe Out hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many notes a second it asks for the part that decides it. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 2:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, high tom, 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 Wipe Out?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 35, 39, 43, 59, 63, 67 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED
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