Hexagons · Muse

123 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 140 BPM, 4:34 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-46 and 55-61 -- 30.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
HEXAGONS · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 8 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 9 sections: 46 keep time, 14 are fills, 9 are stops and 47 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 32-46.

CHORUS
PART M
PART N
PART M
PART S
PART V
OUTRO
BREAK
7 groovesS9S2MSN+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hexagons?

140 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 Hexagons hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 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 Hexagons?

12 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED
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