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Hexes · Yellowed Wallpaper

Hexes · Yellowed Wallpaper
EXERCISE 28 OF 87
Run C2 · Part C (bars 27-32)
64 / 220 BARS COVERED
0 / 87 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
PART AI
PART AV
PART BM
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
15 groovesCCFCAIBM+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 4
JOIN · 14
LINK · 5
SECTION · 14
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hexes on drums

216 bars of 4/4 at a walking 76 BPM, 11:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
216
LENGTH
11:15
DIFFICULTY
77/100

hi-hat through bars 1-6, ride through bars 7-10, hi-hat through bars 11-14, ride through bars 15-16, hi-hat through bars 17-20 and toms through bars 21-24, and 40 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 7-8, 15-16 and 31-32, and 3 more places -- 5.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    7                                                                8
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------|
RD |--------g-------x-------g-------x-------g-------x-------g-------|x-------g-------x-------g-------x-------g-------x-------g-------|
SD |----g-------g-g-----g-----------x---g-------g-g-----g-------g---|----g-------g-g-----g-----------x---g---------------------------|
T1 |----------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------g-g-----------------|
T2 |----------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------x-----------|
FT |----------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------x---|
BD |x-----------x-----------x---x-------x-----------x-------x-------|x-----------x-----------x---x-------x-----------x-------x-------|
Hexes -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 107 times: bars 2, 6, 8, 14, 16, 17 and 101 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 71 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 -- F -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 15-27 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 27-46 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 20 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Hexes?

76 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 Hexes hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 83 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

216 bars, about 11:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 28 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 Hexes?

15 fills to learn, played 107 times: bars 2, 6, 8, 14, 16, 17 and 101 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 216 BARS ANALYSED