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EXERCISE 1 OF 90
Groove N -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 90 PASSED · 44 BARS LIT
PART G
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
12 groovesNLGBAA+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 2
JOIN · 16
LINK · 13
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hammer Down The Nails on drums

220 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 6:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
220
LENGTH
6:40
DIFFICULTY
93/100

toms through bars 1-10, snare through bars 11-18, hi-hat through bars 19-22, ride through bars 23-54, hi-hat through bars 55-57 and toms through bars 58-62, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 31-38, 47-54 and 71-76, and 3 more places -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    31                               32
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x---------------|
SD |x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--|x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x----------|
T1 |--------------------------------|------------------------xx------|
T2 |--------------------------------|---------------------------xx---|
FT |--------------------------------|-----------------------------x-x|
BD |xx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-x|xx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-x|
Hammer Down The Nails -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 10 and 43 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 69 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 -- N -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Bars 18-55 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 11-34 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 35-61 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Hammer Down The Nails?

132 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 Hammer Down The Nails hard to play on drums?

93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

220 bars, about 6:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 22 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Hammer Down The Nails?

20 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 10 and 43 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 220 BARS ANALYSED