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9 To 5 · Dolly Parton

EXERCISE 7 OF 13
Groove I
50 / 67 BARS COVERED
0 / 13 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
BREAK
PART C
CHORUS
VERSE
OUTRO
7 groovesEJCS3B+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 9 To 5 on drums

67 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 2:41 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
2:41
DIFFICULTY
44/100

hi-hat through bars 2-4, silence through bars 5-8 and hi-hat through bars 9-67.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-19, 21-26 and 39-44, and 2 more places -- 59% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
9 To 5 -- 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 12 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 -- E, G -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 3-13 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 30-37 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is 9 To 5?

100 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?

44 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?

67 bars, about 2:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 5 sittings, about 21 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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 67 BARS ANALYSED