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Hammer In Your Shell · Blessed

EXERCISE 37 OF 38
Join Outro to Outro 2 (bars 101-103)
100 / 134 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, OUTRO 2
PART D
CHORUS
PART N
PART P
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesHS12PTB+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hammer In Your Shell on drums

134 bars of 7/4 -- not four -- at 120 BPM, 5:58 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
7/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
5:58
DIFFICULTY
39/100

hi-hat through bars 1-54, snare through bars 55-62, hi-hat through bars 63-103 and silence through bars 104-134.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 25-27 and 29-31, and 5 more places -- 22.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a7e+a
HH |------------o-------------o-|
SD |--------x-------------x-----|
FT |x---x---------x---x---------|
BD |x---x---------x---x---------|
Hammer In Your Shell -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 11, 12, 14, 15, 17, 18 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- H, P -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 8-16 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 11-21 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 21-72 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 63-97 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Hammer In Your Shell?

120 BPM, in 7/4, 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 Hammer In Your Shell hard to play on drums?

39 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 5:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 In Your Shell?

7 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 11, 12, 14, 15, 17, 18 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED