Wooden Ships · Joe Perry

115 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 4:54 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
4:54
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 13-15 and 17-19, and 14 more places -- 33% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 94 BPM
WOODEN SHIPS · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 4, 6, 7, 8, 12, 16 and 34 more.

LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 94 BPM
BARS 6-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 94 BPM
BARS 20-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 8 sections: 66 keep time and 40 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 108-115.

CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesAGEAUCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wooden Ships?

94 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 Wooden Ships hard to play on drums?

58 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 4:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 13 sittings, about 28 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 Wooden Ships?

17 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 4, 6, 7, 8, 12, 16 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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