Wonderful Tonight · Eric Clapton

86 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 3:35 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 80% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 5-49 and 51, and 4 more places -- 80.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 96 BPM
WONDERFUL TONIGHT · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 84.

LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

86 bars: 82 keep time, 1 is a fill and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-49.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wonderful Tonight?

96 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 Wonderful Tonight hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the speed of the hand keeping time the part that decides it. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Wonderful Tonight?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 84.

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