Ahoy Matey · Jabbe

117 bars of 4/4 at 154 BPM, about 3:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
154 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
97/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29, 32-33 and 36, and 3 more places -- 7.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 154 BPM
AHOY MATEY · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14 and 15 more.

LOOP · 154 BPM
BARS 8-11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 154 BPM
BARS 13-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 154 BPM
BARS 22-23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

118 bars across 8 sections: 78 keep time, 21 are fills and 10 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 49-63.

CHORUS
PART AB
PART AI
PART AP
PART AV
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesYAIBGBAAP+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ahoy Matey?

154 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Ahoy Matey hard to play on drums?

97 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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.

How many fills are in Ahoy Matey?

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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