Wrong Side Out · CG5

112 bars at 161 BPM -- fast, and 2:47 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
161 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-30, 43-60 and 91-102 -- 39.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 161 BPM
WRONG SIDE OUT · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 21, 22, 69, 70 and 107.

LOOP · 161 BPM
BARS 21-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 161 BPM
BARS 69-70 · LANDS ON BAR 71 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 161 BPM
BAR 107 · LANDS ON BAR 108
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 11 sections: 63 keep time, 5 are fills, 21 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-19.

PART C
CHORUS
PART E
PART S7
CHORUS 2
10 groovesFCES7T+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wrong Side Out?

161 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Wrong Side Out hard to play on drums?

43 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 2:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 23 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 Wrong Side Out?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 21, 22, 69, 70 and 107.

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