Honey Bee · Tom Petty

108 bars of 4/4 at a walking 93 BPM, 4:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
4:39
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-7, 9-16 and 18-24, and 3 more places -- 30.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 93 BPM
HONEY BEE · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 32, 54, 92 and 108.

LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 92 · LANDS ON BAR 93
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 108
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 7 sections: 93 keep time, 4 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-31.

CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCNHGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Honey Bee?

93 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 Honey Bee hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 4:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Honey Bee?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 32, 54, 92 and 108.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED
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