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Honey · Vacations band

Honey · Vacations band
EXERCISE 13 OF 24
Groove K
63 / 81 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART F
PART A
CHORUS
PART F
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDOAFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Honey on drums

81 bars of 4/4 at 153 BPM, about 2:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
153 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
2:07
DIFFICULTY
71/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-48, hi-hat through bars 49-56 and ride through bars 57-81.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-11, 14-15 and 18-27, and 5 more places -- 39.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1...........2...........3...........4...........
RD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------------x-----------x-----|
Honey -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 8, 78, 79, 80 and 81.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 58-81 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Honey?

153 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 2:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 9 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 8, 78, 79, 80 and 81.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED