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My Sharona · Knack

My Sharona · Knack
EXERCISE 4 OF 36
Groove B (a two-bar phrase)
41 / 90 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART T
OUTRO 2
7 groovesAQTHV+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play My Sharona on drums

90 bars, 4:47, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
4:47
DIFFICULTY
72/100

snare through bars 1-24, hi-hat through bars 25-31, snare through bars 32-45, hi-hat through bars 46-51, snare through bars 52-59 and hi-hat through bars 60-75, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-10, 14 and 16-19, and 6 more places -- 37.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    1
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-------x-------x-x---x-|
HF |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
My Sharona -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 49, 50, 71, 75 and 90.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part H -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Bars 48-63 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Through Part T and Part V -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is My Sharona?

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

Is My Sharona hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 4:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 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 My Sharona?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 49, 50, 71, 75 and 90.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED