Hey Nineteen · Steely Dan

153 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 5:07 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
5:07
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 95% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-24 and 26-32, and 4 more places -- 95.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 118 BPM
HEY NINETEEN · BAR 68
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 9, 25, 33, 49 and 57.

LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

153 bars: 148 keep time and 5 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 58-153.

OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hey Nineteen?

118 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 Nineteen 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?

153 bars, about 5:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Nineteen?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 9, 25, 33, 49 and 57.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED
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