Hey · Pixies

85 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-31 and 73-83 -- 30.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 100 BPM
HEY · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 72 and 84.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

85 bars across 10 sections: 56 keep time, 3 are fills, 1 is a stop and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-43.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART G
PART I
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFS1GCI+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hey?

100 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 hard to play on drums?

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 72 and 84.

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