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HMU (ver. 2) · Tobias Dray

HMU (ver. 2) · Tobias Dray
EXERCISE 5 OF 32
Groove B
32 / 80 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play HMU (ver. 2) on drums

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.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
1:59
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-10, ride through bars 11-24, hi-hat through bars 25-26, kick and crashes through bars 27-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-42, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
BD |x---x---x---x---|
HMU (ver. 2) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- I, E -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 9-24 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 41-54 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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