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Hey Joe ++ · JIMI HENDRIX

EXERCISE 1 OF 47
Groove O -- Part O
0 / 71 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O, OUTRO, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEJOS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hey Joe ++ on drums

71 bars, 3:49, at 74 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-24, ride through bars 25-60, snare through bars 61-63, ride through bars 64-66 and snare through bars 67-69, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34, 38 and 61-63, and 1 more place -- 13.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|
BD |x-------x---------------x-------x-------x---------------x-------|
Hey Joe ++ -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 11, 15, 23, 25, 27, 29 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- O -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D, J -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 4-46 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 4-45 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Hey Joe ++?

74 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Hey Joe ++ hard to play on drums?

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

71 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Joe ++?

14 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 11, 15, 23, 25, 27, 29 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 71 BARS ANALYSED