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Ahoy Matey · Jabbe

Ahoy Matey · Jabbe
EXERCISE 22 OF 54
Run Y1 · Chorus (bars 1-34)
51 / 118 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 34 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ahoy Matey on drums

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.

97 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
154 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
97/100

hi-hat through bar 1, kick and crashes through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-9, snare through bars 10-11, ride through bars 12-25 and hi-hat through bars 26-27, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    29
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----g-----x-----g-----x-----g-----x-----g-----|
SD |---------------------g--x--g-----------g--------|
BD |x--x-----x-----x--x-----x-----x--x--x-----x--x--|
Ahoy Matey -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- Z -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AP -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 4 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  7. Bars 34-47 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 1-47 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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