Hexe · Nachtblut

186 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 5:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
186
LENGTH
5:08
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-21, 34-37 and 49-65, and 6 more places -- 30.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 145 BPM
HEXE · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 29, 33, 73, 77, 93, 145 and 5 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 145 · LANDS ON BAR 146

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

186 bars across 19 sections: 121 keep time, 11 are fills, 17 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 78-92.

PART C
PART G
CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART P
OUTRO
12 groovesDPGEC+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hexe?

145 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Hexe hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

186 bars, about 5:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Hexe?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 29, 33, 73, 77, 93, 145 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 186 BARS ANALYSED
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