H. · Tool

151 bars of 4/4 at a walking 99 BPM, 6:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetal90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
99 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
6:06
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-31, 33 and 35, and 4 more places -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 99 BPM
H. · BARS 17-18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 68, 110, 117, 128, 129, 130 and 9 more.

LOOP · 99 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69
LOOP · 99 BPM
BAR 110 · LANDS ON BAR 111
LOOP · 99 BPM
BAR 117 · LANDS ON BAR 118
LOOP · 99 BPM
BARS 128-132 · LANDS ON BAR 133 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

151 bars across 16 sections: 94 keep time, 15 are fills, 7 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 88-109.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART H
PART K
PART P
PART Y
PART AG
14 groovesCPEYAG+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is H.?

99 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 H. hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 6:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 H.?

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 68, 110, 117, 128, 129, 130 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED
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