Hey Ya! · Outkast

169 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:53 of it without a break -- on hi-hat, snare and kick.

Funk / SoulHip Hop / Reggae150 BPM and upFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 66% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6 and 8-10, and 31 more places -- 65.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 160 BPM
HEY YA! · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

169 bars across 6 sections: 165 keep time and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-72.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBES1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hey Ya!?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Hey Ya! hard to play on drums?

49 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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