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Hamilton - My Shot · Broadway

Hamilton - My Shot · Broadway
EXERCISE 14 OF 41
Groove Q
69 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
PART D
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART T
PART V
PART M
BREAK 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesFMACTV+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hamilton - My Shot on drums

125 bars of 4/4 at a walking 91 BPM, 5:30 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
91 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
5:30
DIFFICULTY
68/100

snare through bars 1-2, toms through bars 3-4, hi-hat through bars 5-49, silence through bars 50-52, hi-hat through bars 53-60 and silence through bars 61-64, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 19, and 9 more places -- 26.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    11
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------r-----------------------r-----------|
BD |x---------x-------x-----------x-----------------|
Hamilton - My Shot -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- F -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 29-83 -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 48-65 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Hamilton - My Shot?

91 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Hamilton - My Shot hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 5:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 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 Hamilton - My Shot?

3 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED