Hello · Lionel Richie

63 bars, 4:02, at 61 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Funk / SoulPopUnder 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
61 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
63
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 33 and 37 -- 14.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 61 BPM
HELLO · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 44, 52 and 56.

LOOP · 61 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 61 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
LOOP · 61 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

63 bars across 7 sections: 49 keep time and 3 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-11.

CHORUS
PART E
PART H
PART K
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesASKEM+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hello?

61 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Hello hard to play on drums?

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

63 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 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 Hello?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 44, 52 and 56.

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