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Hey Jealousy · Gin Blossoms

EXERCISE 1 OF 33
Groove E -- Chorus
0 / 137 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 44 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART B
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesECBHLFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hey Jealousy on drums

137 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:13 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
62/100

toms through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-137.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 42-48 and 57-63, and 4 more places -- 32.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
Hey Jealousy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 1, 17, 25, 33, 49, 64 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- E, B -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 23-66 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 41-83 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Bars 105-119 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Hey Jealousy?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Hey Jealousy hard to play on drums?

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Jealousy?

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 1, 17, 25, 33, 49, 64 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED