Wonderwall · Oasis

78 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 3:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-11, 15 and 17, and 12 more places -- 32.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 88 BPM
WONDERWALL · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 12, 16, 18, 19, 20, 24 and 13 more.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BARS 18-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 88 BPM
BARS 44-46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

78 bars across 8 sections: 47 keep time, 19 are fills and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-11.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCIRGS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wonderwall?

88 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 Wonderwall hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Wonderwall?

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 12, 16, 18, 19, 20, 24 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED
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