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Hey Barbara · IV OF SPADES

EXERCISE 1 OF 39
Groove D -- Chorus
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0 / 39 PASSED · 38 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hey Barbara on drums

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.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
65/100

hi-hat through bars 1-28, kick and crashes through bars 29-31, hi-hat through bars 32-60, kick and crashes through bars 61-67, hi-hat through bars 68-78 and snare through bars 79-84, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |X-x-X-x-X-x-X-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Hey Barbara -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- D, L -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-12 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Bars 30-45 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 41-69 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 76-104 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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