Wish You Were Here · Incubus

73 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 3:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieMetalUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-12, 25-29 and 31-32, and 3 more places -- 41.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 85 BPM
WISH YOU WERE HERE · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 24, 30, 36 and 8 more.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BARS 2-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 9 sections: 48 keep time, 14 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-22.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART M
CHORUS 3
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEAMRQFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wish You Were Here?

85 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?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Wish You Were Here?

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 24, 30, 36 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED
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