Hank The Tank and His Hysterical Honky Tonk Piano · DOP

142 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 78-80, 82-91 and 94 -- 9.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
HANK THE TANK AND HIS HYSTERICAL HONKY TONK PIANO · BAR 79
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 50 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 10-15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 33-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 47-58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 12 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

153 bars across 22 sections: 64 keep time, 56 are fills, 12 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-8.

PART A
PART K
PART O
PART U
CHORUS
PART AT
PART AW
22 groovesAJUAOAT+17Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hank The Tank and His Hysterical Honky Tonk Piano?

140 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 Hank The Tank and His Hysterical Honky Tonk Piano hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 23 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Hank The Tank and His Hysterical Honky Tonk Piano?

14 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 50 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED
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