Bee My Honey" (Honey B. Lovely Theme) · Masayoshi Soken

257 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 6:38 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
257
LENGTH
6:38
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34, 38 and 70-72, and 11 more places -- 12.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BEE MY HONEY" (HONEY B. LOVELY THEME) · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 21, 29, 33, 37, 41, 53 and 37 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

257 bars across 23 sections: 166 keep time, 43 are fills, 10 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 169-178.

PART G
CHORUS
PART O
PART AH
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART AH
PART G
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
13 groovesTAHOGS+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bee My Honey" (Honey B. Lovely Theme)?

155 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Bee My Honey" (Honey B. Lovely Theme) hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

257 bars, about 6:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 72 exercises over 24 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Bee My Honey" (Honey B. Lovely Theme)?

12 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 21, 29, 33, 37, 41, 53 and 37 more.

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