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Hello · Lionel Richie

Hello · Lionel Richie
EXERCISE 12 OF 29
Join Part E to Part H (bars 18-20)
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0 / 29 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, PART H
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hello on drums

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.

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
61 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
63
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
46/100

ride through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-20, hi-hat through bars 21-39, ride through bars 40-44, hi-hat through bars 45-59 and ride through bars 60-63.

The beat

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.

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    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------r-----------------------r-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----------------------|
Hello -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- K, S -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 18-35 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 34-53 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 63 BARS ANALYSED