Hello Joe · Beatsteaks

128 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:25 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-25 and 41-42, and 3 more places -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 150 BPM
HELLO JOE · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 9, 43, 110, 111 and 127.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 110-111 · LANDS ON BAR 112 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 8 sections: 89 keep time, 5 are fills and 27 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-40.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBDKJHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hello Joe?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Hello Joe hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Hello Joe?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 9, 43, 110, 111 and 127.

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