Wish You Were Here · Avril Lavigne

76 bars of 4/4 at a walking 83 BPM, 3:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopPunkUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
83 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 13 and 15, and 27 more places -- 48.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 83 BPM
WISH YOU WERE HERE · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 29.

LOOP · 83 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

76 bars across 10 sections: 61 keep time, 1 is a fill and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 43-59.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
7 groovesCBS1S3S5+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wish You Were Here?

83 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 Wish You Were Here 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Wish You Were Here?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 29.

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