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Hit The Beast (Demo) · Isra

EXERCISE 24 OF 25
Run AB1 · Outro 2 (bars 56-68)
62 / 68 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
PART A
PART D
PART J
PART N
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesUABAJN+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hit The Beast (Demo) on drums

66 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 1:44 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
1:44
DIFFICULTY
32/100

snare through bars 1-3, ride through bars 4-15, toms through bars 16-53 and ride through bars 54-66.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 36, 38-44 and 46-50 -- 19.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    38               39
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|x-------x-------|
SD |x---x-------x---|x-xxx---x---x---|
T2 |--------x-------|-----------x----|
FT |--xx--xx--xx--xx|x-----x-x-x---xx|
Hit The Beast (Demo) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 37, 45, 51, 52 and 53.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- U -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AC (a two-bar phrase), J -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-16 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 20-32 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 30-56 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Hit The Beast (Demo)?

150 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 Hit The Beast (Demo) hard to play on drums?

32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 1:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Hit The Beast (Demo)?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 37, 45, 51, 52 and 53.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 66 BARS ANALYSED