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Hammerhandle · Weedeater

Hammerhandle · Weedeater
EXERCISE 1 OF 23
Groove C -- Part C
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0 / 23 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART C, PART D
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART C
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesJS1IDC+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hammerhandle on drums

80 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 2:47 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
35/100

silence through bars 1-17, snare through bars 18-23, toms through bars 24-25, hi-hat through bars 26-29, snare through bars 30-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-36, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 20 and 26, and 9 more places -- 18.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |------------x-x-|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Hammerhandle -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 67 and 71.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- C, D, I -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 17-48 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 23-49 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 46-68 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Hammerhandle?

114 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 Hammerhandle hard to play on drums?

35 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 2:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 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 Hammerhandle?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 67 and 71.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED