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Hands Down · Dashboard Confessional

EXERCISE 11 OF 50
Groove I (a two-bar phrase)
76 / 145 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDZKAGS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hands Down on drums

145 bars at 188 BPM -- fast, and 3:05 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
188 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-71, toms through bars 72-73, hi-hat through bars 74-81, ride through bars 82-89 and snare through bars 90-109, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-16, 19-24 and 27-30, and 3 more places -- 22.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |ggggxgggggggxggg|
BD |----x-------x-x-|
Hands Down -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 17, 57, 73, 79, 89, 97 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- D, Z -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Hands Down?

188 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 Hands Down hard to play on drums?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Hands Down?

10 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 17, 57, 73, 79, 89, 97 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED