Hail · Bongripper

310 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 13:49 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
310
LENGTH
13:49
DIFFICULTY
31/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 7, and 68 more places -- 31.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 90 BPM
HAIL · BAR 244
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 2, 62, 70, 78, 86 and 4 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 142 · LANDS ON BAR 143 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

310 bars across 6 sections: 88 keep time, 10 are fills, 203 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-54.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
5 groovesBS5DS4S6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hail?

90 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 Hail hard to play on drums?

31 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

310 bars, about 13:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Hail?

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 2, 62, 70, 78, 86 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 310 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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