Wishing Well · Blackfoot

97 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

125 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

97

LENGTH

3:06

DIFFICULTY

52/100

snare through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-97.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 7-15 and 17-22, and 17 more places -- 49.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 66.

It cuts the song into 22 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

1. The grooves the song is built on -- B, G -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
4. Through Part G and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
5. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
6. Bars 73-80 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.