Wrong 'Em Boyo · The Clash

11 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 0:20 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

Punk120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
11
LENGTH
0:20
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2 and 7-8 -- 27.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
WRONG 'EM BOYO · BAR 2
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

11 bars across 2 sections: 10 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-5.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wrong 'Em Boyo?

130 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 Wrong 'Em Boyo hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

11 bars, about 0:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 4 sittings, about 18 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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