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Hip To Be Square · Huey Lewis And The News

EXERCISE 18 OF 24
Run B1 · Outro (bars 1-114)
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0 / 24 PASSED · 114 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBPFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hip To Be Square on drums

139 bars of 4/4 at 143 BPM, about 3:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
60/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-114 and ride through bars 115-139.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-19 and 21-24, and 23 more places -- 62.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 9, 29, 37, 53, 69, 92 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Hip To Be Square?

143 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 Hip To Be Square hard to play on drums?

60 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?

139 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Hip To Be Square?

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 9, 29, 37, 53, 69, 92 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED