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Hey Kid · The Ataris

EXERCISE 15 OF 18
Join Chorus 2 to Part F (bars 38-40)
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDFS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hey Kid on drums

65 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:10 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
2:10
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-8 and hi-hat through bars 9-65.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 25-27 and 29-35, and 2 more places -- 39% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-o-x-o-x-o-x-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Hey Kid -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 16, 28, 36, 37, 38, 39 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Hey Kid?

120 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 Kid hard to play on drums?

61 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

65 bars, about 2:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Hey Kid?

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 16, 28, 36, 37, 38, 39 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 65 BARS ANALYSED