Hexes‎ · Tesseract

112 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 4:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
4:37
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 87-91, 93-97 and 99-103 -- 18.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 104 BPM
HEXES‎ · BAR 87
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 26 more.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 86 · LANDS ON BAR 87

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 8 sections: 37 keep time, 32 are fills, 9 are stops and 30 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 87-104.

CHORUS
PART AE
PART AJ
PART AP
PART S6
OUTRO
BREAK
8 groovesCATS6AJAP+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hexes‎?

104 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 Hexes‎ hard to play on drums?

60 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 4:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Hexes‎?

3 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED
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