Hitchhiker · Macabre

114 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 7-9, 25 and 27, and 4 more places -- 11.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
HITCHHIKER · BARS 7-8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 4, 8, 14, 15, 16, 18 and 33 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 14-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 11 sections: 57 keep time, 39 are fills, 5 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 93-99.

CHORUS
PART N
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART AB
PART N
CHORUS 3
PART H
7 groovesANABEH+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hitchhiker?

130 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 Hitchhiker hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Hitchhiker?

12 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 4, 8, 14, 15, 16, 18 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED
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