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Hey Jude · Wilson Pickett

EXERCISE 34 OF 43
Groove T -- Outro
76 / 82 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART A
CHORUS
PART G
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDGAHTFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hey Jude on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
48/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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, G -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 27-44 -- 9 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 70-77 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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