Joey · Concrete Blonde

119 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:58 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 82% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 13-19 and 21-27, and 9 more places -- 82.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
JOEY · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

119 bars across 4 sections: 115 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-79.

CHORUS
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Joey?

120 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 Joey hard to play on drums?

37 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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