Won't Get Fooled Again · The Who

285 bars of 4/4 at 137 BPM, about 8:18 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockElectronic120 to 149 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
285
LENGTH
8:18
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 6% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42, 44 and 46, and 11 more places -- 5.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 137 BPM
WON'T GET FOOLED AGAIN · BAR 42
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

37 fills to learn, played 121 times: bars 19, 21, 25, 29, 30, 31 and 115 more.

LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20
LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 137 BPM
BARS 29-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

33 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

285 bars across 21 sections: 64 keep time, 125 are fills, 24 are stops and 48 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 103-110.

COUNT-IN
PART H
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART BQ
PART AK
CHORUS 4
PART DA
PART S17
15 groovesOS17AKADA+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Won't Get Fooled Again?

137 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 Won't Get Fooled Again hard to play on drums?

54 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

285 bars, about 8:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 102 exercises over 30 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Won't Get Fooled Again?

37 fills to learn, played 121 times: bars 19, 21, 25, 29, 30, 31 and 115 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 285 BARS ANALYSED
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