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

EXERCISE 1 OF 85
Groove O -- Part O
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PART G
PART P
CHORUS
PART O
PART AH
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART AH
PART G
PART P
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesTAHOGS+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 25
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 14
LINK · 11
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bee My Honey" (Honey B. Lovely Theme) on drums

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.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
257
LENGTH
6:38
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-33, ride through bars 34-41, snare through bars 42-43, hi-hat through bars 44-65 and snare through bars 66-67, and 21 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x---x---x---x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Bee My Honey" (Honey B. Lovely Theme) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 72 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 -- O, B -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes.
  5. Through Part AH -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part G -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 18-137 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part G -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  9. and 16 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 257 BARS ANALYSED