Wonderboy · Tenacious D

102 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 3:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-12, 17-19 and 25-31, and 5 more places -- 38.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 105 BPM
WONDERBOY · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 4, 16, 24, 36, 40, 43 and 12 more.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 71-72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 18 sections: 59 keep time, 18 are fills, 3 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-12.

CHORUS
CHORUS 3
PART D
CHORUS 6
PART S14
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCDS14PS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wonderboy?

105 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 Wonderboy hard to play on drums?

51 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Wonderboy?

5 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 4, 16, 24, 36, 40, 43 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED
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