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Drop C 160BPM Hypecore (AAL) · ethandies

EXERCISE 2 OF 82
Groove G -- Part G (a two-bar phrase)
25 / 153 BARS COVERED
0 / 82 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
PART G
PART K
PART W
PART G
PART AA
PART AK
PART S13
OUTRO
10 groovesXGWS13AK+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 7
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Drop C 160BPM Hypecore (AAL) on drums

153 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:50 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
61/100

toms through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-6, hi-hat through bars 7-16, snare through bars 17-19, toms through bars 20-23 and snare through bars 24-30, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-36, 38-40 and 42, and 9 more places -- 17.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Drop C 160BPM Hypecore (AAL) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 50 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 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 -- W -- 1 exercise, about 11 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part G -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- AK -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part Q -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 21-30 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Drop C 160BPM Hypecore (AAL)?

160 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 Drop C 160BPM Hypecore (AAL) hard to play on drums?

61 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Drop C 160BPM Hypecore (AAL)?

20 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 50 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED