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Your Body is a Wonderland · John Mayer

EXERCISE 4 OF 12
Run A1 · Part A (bars 1-12)
78 / 94 BARS COVERED
0 / 12 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCBAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Your Body is a Wonderland on drums

94 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 4:00 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
45/100

snare through bars 1-12 and ride through bars 13-94.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-94 -- 70.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    29
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
T2 |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-------x-------|
HF |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Your Body is a Wonderland -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Your Body is a Wonderland?

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 Your Body is a Wonderland hard to play on drums?

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED