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Wouldn't It Be Nice · The Beach Boys

EXERCISE 6 OF 24
Run S21 · Break (bars 4-5)
36 / 76 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE BREAK
BREAK
CHORUS
PART S4
CHORUS 2
PART S6
PART D
PART E
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesCS12DES4+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wouldn't It Be Nice on drums

76 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 2:26 of playing, on crash, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
2:26
DIFFICULTY
36/100

silence through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-13, silence through bars 14-16, snare through bars 17-18, toms through bars 19-27 and silence through bars 28-30, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-12, 19-26 and 47-49, and 8 more places -- 48.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
SD |----x-------x---|
FT |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Wouldn't It Be Nice -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 4, 50 and 60.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- C, D -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Bars 4-42 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 41-51 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Wouldn't It Be Nice?

125 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 Wouldn't It Be Nice hard to play on drums?

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 2:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Wouldn't It Be Nice?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 4, 50 and 60.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED