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Call Me · Blondie

EXERCISE 23 OF 48
2-bar fill at bar 70
107 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART E
PART F
CHORUS 4
PART E
PART F
OUTRO
5 groovesBFETS12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Call Me on drums

120 bars of 4/4 at 143 BPM, about 3:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
89/100

toms through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-120.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 14 more places -- 27.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x-x-x---x-x-x-x-x---x-o-|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
Call Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 21, 29, 41, 45, 46, 53 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- B -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 15-58 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and the Chorus 3 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 64-78 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Call Me?

143 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 Call Me hard to play on drums?

89 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?

120 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Call Me?

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 21, 29, 41, 45, 46, 53 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED