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Hexagons · Muse

EXERCISE 1 OF 43
Groove M -- Part M
0 / 123 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 23 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
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
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hexagons on drums

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.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
67/100

silence through bars 1-5, toms through bars 6-21, silence through bars 22-30, hi-hat through bars 31-46, ride through bars 47-54 and hi-hat through bars 55-70, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    33
    1...........2...........3...........4...........5...........6...........
HH |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x-----x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------------------------------|
BD |x-----------------------------------------x-----------------x-----------|
Hexagons -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- M -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 9 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part M and Part N -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 59-74 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 75-90 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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