Hey Joe · Popa Chubby

206 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 10:01 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
206
LENGTH
10:01
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 64, 68 and 72, and 12 more places -- 8.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 82 BPM
HEY JOE · BAR 92
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

25 fills to learn, played 62 times: bars 5, 17, 51, 53, 55, 57 and 56 more.

LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54

21 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

206 bars across 22 sections: 90 keep time, 62 are fills, 9 are stops and 25 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-16.

PART C
PART K
PART M
PART W
CHORUS
PART AF
PART W
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
18 groovesADWCKM+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hey Joe?

82 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Joe hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

206 bars, about 10:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 81 exercises over 27 sittings, about 25 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?

25 fills to learn, played 62 times: bars 5, 17, 51, 53, 55, 57 and 56 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 206 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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