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Sheena Is A Punk Rocker · The Ramones

EXERCISE 1 OF 21
Groove C -- Chorus 2
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PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART B
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART D
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCBDAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sheena Is A Punk Rocker on drums

122 bars at 176 BPM -- fast, and 2:46 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
2:46
DIFFICULTY
58/100

hi-hat through bars 1-38, ride through bars 39-46, hi-hat through bars 47-84, ride through bars 85-92 and hi-hat through bars 93-122.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-16, 21-38 and 59-62, and 2 more places -- 57.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Sheena Is A Punk Rocker -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-16 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Bars 13-42 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 39-122 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Sheena Is A Punk Rocker?

176 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Sheena Is A Punk Rocker hard to play on drums?

58 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 2:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED