Wonder · Natalie Merchant

120 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 4:09 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Country / FolkAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-5, 8 and 10, and 17 more places -- 27.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 115 BPM
WONDER · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 6, 17, 18, 33, 34, 42 and 12 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BARS 17-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43
LOOP · 115 BPM
BARS 58-60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 12 sections: 82 keep time, 18 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 94-103.

PART D
PART F
PART F
PART D
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART N
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCNDFVFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wonder?

115 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 Wonder hard to play on drums?

47 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 9 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Wonder?

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 6, 17, 18, 33, 34, 42 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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