Wise Guy · Burning Heads

67 bars at 188 BPM -- fast, and 1:23 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Punk150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
188 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
1:23
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-26, 31-33 and 35-42 -- 29.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 188 BPM
WISE GUY · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 4, 6, 10, 12, 18, 34 and 1 more.

LOOP · 188 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 188 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 188 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 188 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

67 bars across 9 sections: 35 keep time, 7 are fills, 18 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-26.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesIAJNQ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wise Guy?

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

Is Wise Guy hard to play on drums?

56 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 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 1:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Wise Guy?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 4, 6, 10, 12, 18, 34 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 67 BARS ANALYSED
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