Hey DJ · Forrest frank

71 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 2:31 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
2:31
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 81% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-9, 11-17 and 19-25, and 5 more places -- 81% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 113 BPM
HEY DJ · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

71 bars across 4 sections: 63 keep time and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-42.

CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
3 groovesCS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hey DJ?

113 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 DJ hard to play on drums?

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

71 bars, about 2:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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