Wishing Wells · Parkway Drive

174 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 7:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
7:44
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 45-51 and 94-100 -- 8.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 90 BPM
WISHING WELLS · BARS 45-46
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 11, 24, 32, 35, 36 and 11 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 35-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

174 bars across 17 sections: 108 keep time, 17 are fills, 16 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 44-51.

CHORUS
PART Q
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART O
PART AF
PART AK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesEWOQAF+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wishing Wells?

90 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Wishing Wells hard to play on drums?

60 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

174 bars, about 7:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 19 sittings, about 23 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 Wishing Wells?

13 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 11, 24, 32, 35, 36 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 174 BARS ANALYSED
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