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Hey · Pixies

EXERCISE 15 OF 25
Run A1 · Part A (bars 56-59)
62 / 85 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART G
PART I
PART A
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFS1GCI+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hey on drums

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.

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-21, ride through bars 22-57, hi-hat through bars 58-72 and ride through bars 73-85.

The beat

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.

    22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |X-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|
Hey -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- F, G -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 20-44 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 56-73 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED