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Call Me Maybe · Carly Rae Jepsen

Call Me Maybe · Carly Rae Jepsen
EXERCISE 1 OF 17
Groove E -- Chorus
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0 / 17 PASSED · 52 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
PART B
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
OUTRO
7 groovesEFBS8C+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Call Me Maybe on drums

88 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:56 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
47/100

kick and crashes through bars 3-9, hi-hat through bars 10-30, silence through bars 31-32, hi-hat through bars 33-68, silence through bars 69-76 and hi-hat through bars 77-88.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-30, 45-68 and 77-88 -- 68.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--xx--x---xx--x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Call Me Maybe -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 9-15 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 29-44 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Call Me Maybe?

120 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 Call Me Maybe hard to play on drums?

47 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED