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Hobo Humpin' Slobo Babe · Whale

EXERCISE 13 OF 21
3-bar fill at bar 46
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0 / 21 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
CHORUS
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAHFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hobo Humpin' Slobo Babe on drums

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

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

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
49/100

hi-hat through bars 1-21, snare through bars 22-24, hi-hat through bars 25-30, snare through bars 31-36, hi-hat through bars 37-42 and snare through bars 43-45, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x--x--|
Hobo Humpin' Slobo Babe -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Bars 40-76 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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