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Everybody Have Fun Tonight · Wang Chung

EXERCISE 15 OF 15
Play the whole song with the record
133 / 133 BARS COVERED
0 / 15 PASSED · 133 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Everybody Have Fun Tonight on drums

133 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:06 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
48/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-12 and 14-24, and 28 more places -- 67.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Everybody Have Fun Tonight -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 29, 37, 43, 49, 66 and 110.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Everybody Have Fun Tonight?

130 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 Everybody Have Fun Tonight hard to play on drums?

48 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?

133 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Everybody Have Fun Tonight?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 29, 37, 43, 49, 66 and 110.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED