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EXERCISE 1 OF 25
Groove AT -- Outro
0 / 112 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hexes‎ on drums

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.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
4:37
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-26, ride through bars 27-35, snare through bars 36-67, silence through bars 68-86 and snare through bars 87-104, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    87
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |----x-x-----x-x-|
HF |x---x---x---x---|
Hexes‎ -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- AT, AE -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AJ -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part AE -- 2 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-55 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 45-67 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Break -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
START THE COURSE ↑

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