Honeypie · JAWNY

62 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 2:09 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

Funk / SoulAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
2:09
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 75% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-6, 8-10 and 12-14, and 10 more places -- 75% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 115 BPM
HONEYPIE · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

62 bars across 4 sections: 52 keep time and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-31.

CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
3 groovesBS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Honeypie?

115 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 Honeypie hard to play on drums?

40 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

62 bars, about 2:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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