Hobo Humpin' Slobo Babe · Whale

83 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 3:54 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Under 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 65% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-15, 19-24 and 27-36, and 3 more places -- 65.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 85 BPM
HOBO HUMPIN' SLOBO BABE · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 16, 46, 47 and 48.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 85 BPM
BARS 46-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

83 bars across 4 sections: 74 keep time and 4 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-38.

CHORUS
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAHFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hobo Humpin' Slobo Babe?

85 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 Hobo Humpin' Slobo Babe 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Hobo Humpin' Slobo Babe?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 16, 46, 47 and 48.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED
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