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Johnny B Goode · Peter Tosh

Johnny B Goode · Peter Tosh
EXERCISE 1 OF 11
Groove B -- Outro 2
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OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Johnny B Goode on drums

118 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 3:14 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
31/100

toms through bar 1 and snare through bars 2-118.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 10-16 and 18-96, and 1 more place -- 91.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    11
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-----x-----------------|
Johnny B Goode -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 1 and 9.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 8 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 -- B -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  2. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Johnny B Goode?

146 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 Johnny B Goode hard to play on drums?

31 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 5 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 2 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, high tom, 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 Johnny B Goode?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 1 and 9.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED