HMU (ver. 2) · Tobias Dray

80 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 1:59 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
1:59
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-39 -- 20.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 162 BPM
HMU (VER. 2) · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 40, 41, 42, 44 and 80.

LOOP · 162 BPM
BARS 40-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 80
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

80 bars across 10 sections: 53 keep time, 5 are fills and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-39.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART L
PART E
PART O
PART R
BREAK
OUTRO
9 groovesIEOS1S9+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is HMU (ver. 2)?

162 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is HMU (ver. 2) hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 1:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 HMU (ver. 2)?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 40, 41, 42, 44 and 80.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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