Hey Jude · Wilson Pickett

82 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 4:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Funk / SoulJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-17, 21 and 23, and 5 more places -- 25.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 82 BPM
HEY JUDE · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 18, 19, 24, 28, 29, 37 and 11 more.

LOOP · 82 BPM
BARS 18-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 82 BPM
BARS 28-29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 82 BPM
BARS 42-43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

82 bars across 8 sections: 57 keep time and 17 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-9.

PART A
CHORUS
PART G
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDGAHTFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hey Jude?

82 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 Jude hard to play on drums?

48 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Jude?

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 18, 19, 24, 28, 29, 37 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED
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