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Hella Good · No Doubt

EXERCISE 26 OF 28
Join Outro to Outro 2 (bars 99-101)
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0 / 28 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesAJGIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hella Good on drums

115 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 4:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
45/100

hi-hat through bars 1-64, ride through bars 65-72, hi-hat through bars 73-104, snare through bars 105-112 and hi-hat through bars 113-115.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-23, 25-33 and 35-43, and 10 more places -- 66.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 24, 34, 48, 52, 64, 80 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- A -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 69-97 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 95-108 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Hella Good?

115 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 Hella Good hard to play on drums?

45 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Hella Good?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 24, 34, 48, 52, 64, 80 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED