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Honey Bee · Tom Petty

EXERCISE 1 OF 30
Groove C -- Chorus
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0 / 30 PASSED · 32 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART H, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCNHGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Honey Bee on drums

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.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
4:39
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-108.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- C, H -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 36-81 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Bars 56-81 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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