Hanging On The Telephone · Blondie

85 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

PopAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
2:16
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-10, 19-25 and 40-45, and 1 more place -- 30.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 150 BPM
HANGING ON THE TELEPHONE · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 4, 18, 39, 49, 51, 57 and 1 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 57-58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

85 bars across 12 sections: 61 keep time, 7 are fills, 3 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 72-82.

PART C
CHORUS
PART C
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART G
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDCFGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hanging On The Telephone?

150 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 Hanging On The Telephone hard to play on drums?

56 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 2:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Hanging On The Telephone?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 4, 18, 39, 49, 51, 57 and 1 more.

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