9 to 5 · Dolly Parton - The Essential

78 bars of 4/4 at a walking 101 BPM, 3:05 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
101 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 62% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-18, 21-26 and 29, and 5 more places -- 62.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 101 BPM
9 TO 5 · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 12 and 38.

LOOP · 101 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

78 bars across 8 sections: 64 keep time, 2 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-60.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesECBGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 9 to 5?

101 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 9 to 5 hard to play on drums?

41 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?

78 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in 9 to 5?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 12 and 38.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED
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