Hanger Catharsis · SHITWORKERS

181 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 5:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
181
LENGTH
5:32
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-29, 39-45 and 69-75, and 4 more places -- 31.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
HANGER CATHARSIS · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 3, 11, 12, 13, 14, 46 and 21 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 46-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

182 bars across 11 sections: 136 keep time, 27 are fills, 5 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-45.

PART D
CHORUS
PART Q
CHORUS 2
PART W
CHORUS 3
PART Q
CHORUS 4
7 groovesNQDWZ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hanger Catharsis?

130 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 Hanger Catharsis hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

181 bars, about 5:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 15 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 Hanger Catharsis?

12 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 3, 11, 12, 13, 14, 46 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 181 BARS ANALYSED
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