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Hammer of Justice · Toby Fox

EXERCISE 1 OF 14
Groove E -- Chorus
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0 / 14 PASSED · 48 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesES4S5ACFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hammer of Justice on drums

88 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:12 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
2:12
DIFFICULTY
74/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-7, hi-hat through bars 8-40, silence through bars 41-48, kick and crashes through bars 49-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-88.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 13 more places -- 60% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x--x-x--|
Hammer of Justice -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 8 and 88.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- E -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 3-9 -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Hammer of Justice?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Hammer of Justice hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 2:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 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 of Justice?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 8 and 88.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED