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Hank The Tank and His Hysterical Honky Tonk Piano · DOP

EXERCISE 1 OF 84
Groove AJ -- Chorus
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PART A
PART K
PART O
PART U
PART S11
CHORUS
PART AT
PART AW
22 groovesAJUAOAT+17Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 4
JOIN · 17
LINK · 3
SECTION · 15
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hank The Tank and His Hysterical Honky Tonk Piano on drums

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.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
72/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, toms through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-33, snare through bars 34-35, hi-hat through bars 36-37 and snare through bars 38-41, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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HH |o-o-o-o-|
SD |--xx--x-|
BD |x---x---|
Hank The Tank and His Hysterical Honky Tonk Piano -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 69 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 -- AJ -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and the Break -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and Part U -- 4 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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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