Hey Baby · Marty Stuart

89 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:58 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Country / Folk120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 61% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-10, 16-20 and 26-30, and 4 more places -- 61.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
HEY BABY · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 48 and 60.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 12 sections: 71 keep time, 2 are fills, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 61-79.

VERSE
CHORUS
VERSE 2
CHORUS 2
VERSE 3
CHORUS 3
VERSE 4
PART F
VERSE 5
5 groovesDEFCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hey Baby?

120 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 Hey Baby hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 2:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 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 Hey Baby?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 48 and 60.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED
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