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Worker Bees · Billy Talent

EXERCISE 21 OF 38
Hold Groove F for 8 bars -- Part F (bars 45-52)
75 / 99 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Worker Bees on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
65/100

hi-hat through bars 3-70, ride through bars 71-78, hi-hat through bars 79-97 and snare through bars 98-99.

The beat

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.

    4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-xx--x-x-xx--x-|
Worker Bees -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-21 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-30 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part I and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 67-96 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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