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Johnny I Hardly Knew Ya · Dropkick Murphys

EXERCISE 21 OF 64
Join Chorus to Part O (bars 44-46)
91 / 164 BARS COVERED
0 / 64 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART O
COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
PART O
PART H
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesMHDOS15+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Johnny I Hardly Knew Ya on drums

164 bars of 4/4 at a walking 91 BPM, 7:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
7:08
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, ride through bars 21-28, hi-hat through bars 29-44, ride through bars 45-60 and snare through bars 61-64, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22, 26-27 and 46, and 13 more places -- 13.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    22
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
RD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----x-----------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----x-----------x-----|
Johnny I Hardly Knew Ya -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 28, 36, 40 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- H, I -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 33-53 -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  6. Bars 44-62 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part I and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part R and Part T -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Johnny I Hardly Knew Ya?

91 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 I Hardly Knew Ya hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 7:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Johnny I Hardly Knew Ya?

12 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 28, 36, 40 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED