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A Taste Of Honey · The Beatles

EXERCISE 6 OF 9
Run C2 · Part C (bars 51-54)
53 / 62 BARS COVERED
0 / 9 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBCS1S6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Taste Of Honey on drums

62 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 110 BPM, 1:47 of playing on crash, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

17 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
1:47
DIFFICULTY
17/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-55, silence through bars 56-58 and snare through bars 59-62.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-24, 31-50 and 59-61 -- 78.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a
SD |x---X---X-x-|
BD |x---------x-|
HF |----x---x---|
A Taste Of Honey -- 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 8 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 -- B -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is A Taste Of Honey?

110 BPM, in 3/4, 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 A Taste Of Honey hard to play on drums?

17 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 2 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

62 bars, about 1:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 2 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 62 BARS ANALYSED