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Hands That Mold · Dystopia

EXERCISE 1 OF 90
Groove C -- Chorus
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0 / 90 PASSED · 29 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART AI
PART BC
PART BC
OUTRO 2
14 groovesCBCBNAIAR+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 4
JOIN · 14
LINK · 1
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hands That Mold on drums

163 bars, 9:19, at 64 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
64 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
9:19
DIFFICULTY
66/100

silence through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-54, toms through bars 55-57, ride through bars 58-61, hi-hat through bars 62-65 and ride through bars 66-80, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-33 and 39 -- 18.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    15
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
RD |----x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-----------x-------x-x-|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-x-----|
Hands That Mold -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

22 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 5, 36, 37, 38, 40, 41 and 32 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 67 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 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BC -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- BG -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part X -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 56-62 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part X and Part AA -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part AA and Part AD -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Hands That Mold?

64 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Hands That Mold hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 9:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 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 That Mold?

22 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 5, 36, 37, 38, 40, 41 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 163 BARS ANALYSED