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Hanging On The Telephone · Blondie

EXERCISE 3 OF 28
Fill at bar 18, 49 and 51
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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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hanging On The Telephone on drums

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

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
2:16
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-10, ride through bars 11-18, hi-hat through bars 19-25, ride through bars 26-33 and snare through bars 34-35, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- C, D -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 4-26 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Bars 34-53 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 46-71 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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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