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Hang Me From the Bible Belt (feat. Gideon) · No Cure

EXERCISE 30 OF 68
Groove R
80 / 138 BARS COVERED
0 / 68 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S, OUTRO
COUNT-IN
PART C
PART S4
CHORUS
PART S
PART J
PART AA
BREAK 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesMCJAAAJ+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 4
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hang Me From the Bible Belt (feat. Gideon) on drums

138 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-22, toms through bars 23-26, snare through bars 27-36, hi-hat through bars 37-43 and snare through bars 44-48, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-39, 41-42 and 54-56, and 4 more places -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    37
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---------------|
Hang Me From the Bible Belt (feat. Gideon) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 8, 16, 23, 24, 27, 28 and 30 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- J -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AJ -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 8-37 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part S4 and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part S4 and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part S -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Hang Me From the Bible Belt (feat. Gideon)?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Hang Me From the Bible Belt (feat. Gideon) hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Hang Me From the Bible Belt (feat. Gideon)?

15 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 8, 16, 23, 24, 27, 28 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED