Hex · Hate

40 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 120 BPM, 2:13 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
40
LENGTH
2:13
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 10-11 and 13-15 -- 26.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
HEX · BAR 2
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 5 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

40 bars across 4 sections: 9 keep time, 11 are fills, 1 is a stop and 17 are silent.

CHORUS
PART B
OUTRO
BREAK
3 groovesS4DBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hex?

120 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Hex hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 100 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

40 bars, about 2:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Hex?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 40 BARS ANALYSED
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