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Hail · Bongripper

Hail · Bongripper
EXERCISE 19 OF 19
Play the whole song with the record
260 / 310 BARS COVERED
0 / 19 PASSED · 310 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
BREAK
OUTRO
BREAK 2
5 groovesBS5DS4S6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hail on drums

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.

31 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
310
LENGTH
13:49
DIFFICULTY
31/100

toms through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-182 and kick and crashes through bars 183-310.

The beat

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.

    244
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
Hail -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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, D -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 72-310 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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