Hey Barbara · IV OF SPADES

120 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 3:51 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Funk / Soul120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 21-23, and 6 more places -- 31.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 124 BPM
HEY BARBARA · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 4, 28, 33, 34, 35, 36 and 4 more.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 124 BPM
BARS 33-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 15 sections: 88 keep time, 10 are fills, 2 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-27.

PART A
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART N
PART Y
CHORUS 3
VERSE 3
7 groovesDLGNY+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hey Barbara?

124 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 Barbara hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Hey Barbara?

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 4, 28, 33, 34, 35, 36 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED
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