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"Stand By Me" · Ben E. King

"Stand By Me" · Ben E. King
EXERCISE 22 OF 29
Groove F -- Part F
75 / 87 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART B
PART C
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART C
PART B
PART F
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesACBDF+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play "Stand By Me" on drums

87 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:54 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

24 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
24/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-40, kick and crashes through bars 41-45, snare through bars 46-55, hi-hat through bars 56-60 and snare through bars 61-65, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-5, 26-30 and 41-45, and 2 more places -- 40.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-----------|
BD |x-----x-----x-x-|
"Stand By Me" -- 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 28 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, C, B -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 4-23 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 14-31 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 29-51 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 54-61 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 64-87 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is "Stand By Me"?

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 "Stand By Me" hard to play on drums?

24 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 3 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED