Worker Bees · Billy Talent

99 bars of 4/4 at 111 BPM, about 3:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-11, 27-35 and 54, and 7 more places -- 37.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 111 BPM
WORKER BEES · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 12, 20, 22, 24, 26, 36 and 7 more.

LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 11 sections: 73 keep time, 13 are fills, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 80-92.

CHORUS
PART D
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART F
PART I
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBIFDK+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Worker Bees?

111 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 Worker Bees hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 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 Worker Bees?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 12, 20, 22, 24, 26, 36 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED
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