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Hands · Bumblefoot

EXERCISE 2 OF 27
Groove H -- Part H
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CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART H
OUTRO
7 groovesBHAOS12+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hands on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
4:50
DIFFICULTY
74/100

snare through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-61, silence through bars 62-65, snare through bars 66-69 and hi-hat through bars 70-162.

The beat

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.

    14               15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---x-o-x-o-|
SD |x-------x-------|x-----------x---|
T2 |----------------|--------x-------|
FT |x---------------|----------------|
BD |xx-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|xx-x-x-x-x---x--|
Hands -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- B -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 53-78 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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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