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I Started A Joke · Bee Gees

EXERCISE 5 OF 21
Join Part A to Chorus (bars 16-18)
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0 / 21 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEHJAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Started A Joke on drums

110 bars of 2/4 -- not four -- at 67 BPM, 3:17 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.

TEMPO
67 BPM
TIME
2/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
35/100

silence through bars 1-9, ride through bars 10-37, hi-hat through bars 38-53, ride through bars 54-65, hi-hat through bars 66-85 and ride through bars 86-95, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-37, 55-65 and 84, and 1 more place -- 40.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    18
    1e+a2e+a
RD |--x-x-x-|
HH |o-------|
SD |x-------|
BD |x-------|
HF |--x-x-x-|
I Started A Joke -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 54.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- E, H -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 16-55 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 62-103 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is I Started A Joke?

67 BPM, in 2/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is I Started A Joke hard to play on drums?

35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in I Started A Joke?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 54.

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