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Hey, Johnny Park! · Foo Fighters

EXERCISE 6 OF 43
Fill at bar 55 (a small one)
43 / 86 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART B
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDHQBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hey, Johnny Park! on drums

86 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 4:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
62/100

toms through bar 1, snare through bars 2-7, hi-hat through bars 8-14, ride through bars 15-16, hi-hat through bars 17-22 and ride through bars 23-24, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 25-30 and 43-48, and 2 more places -- 22.1% 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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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |g-g-x-g-g-g-x-g-|
SD |----x----x--x--g|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Hey, Johnny Park! -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 7, 23, 24 and 14 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H, B -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-56 -- 7 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Bars 32-62 -- 4 exercises, about 26 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, Johnny Park!?

85 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, Johnny Park! 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 4:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Hey, Johnny Park!?

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 7, 23, 24 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED