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H. · Tool
EXERCISE 12 OF 55
Groove H -- Part H (a two-bar phrase)
82 / 151 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play H. on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
99 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
6:06
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-15, toms through bars 16-68, ride through bars 69-84, toms through bars 85-86, ride through bars 87-110 and hi-hat through bars 111-120, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    17               18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----X-------X---|----X-----X-----|
T1 |xxxx-g-------g--|xxxx-g--xx-g----|
T2 |------xx--xx----|------xx----xx--|
FT |--------------xx|--------------x-|
BD |x-------x-------|x-------x-------|
HF |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
H. -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 33-58 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part H and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part P -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and Part V -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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