Hands · Bumblefoot

162 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Progressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
4:50
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 17 more places -- 41.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 135 BPM
HANDS · BARS 14-15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 13, 45, 53 and 102.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

166 bars across 12 sections: 140 keep time, 4 are fills, 4 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-44.

CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART H
OUTRO
7 groovesBHAOS12+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hands?

135 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 Hands hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 4:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 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 Hands?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 13, 45, 53 and 102.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED
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