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Buddy Joe · Golden Earring

EXERCISE 11 OF 27
Groove I
98 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEKBJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Buddy Joe on drums

125 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 3:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
53/100

hi-hat through bars 1-38, ride through bars 39-44, hi-hat through bars 45-71, ride through bars 72-74, hi-hat through bars 75-101 and ride through bars 102-104, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-32, 48-58 and 61-68, and 5 more places -- 56.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Buddy Joe -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 33, 34, 59, 60, 106, 117 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- E, K -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Bars 36-111 -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 36-61 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Bars 99-107 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Buddy Joe?

132 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Buddy Joe hard to play on drums?

53 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 9 sittings, about 22 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 Buddy Joe?

4 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 33, 34, 59, 60, 106, 117 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED