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Hope Is · Killswitch Engage

EXERCISE 19 OF 60
Join Part G to Part L (bars 15-17)
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0 / 60 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, PART L
PART E
PART G
PART L
PART P
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART S9
PART P
CHORUS 3
8 groovesUPGLS9+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 12
LINK · 8
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hope Is on drums

98 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 4:08 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
69/100

toms through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-20, snare through bars 21-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-44, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 29-31, 33-35 and 49-51, and 3 more places -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    29                               30
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x---------x---x-x-----x---x-----|--x-----x-x---x-x-----x---x---x-|
Hope Is -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 13, 15, 20 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P, G -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part G -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 20-41 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 13-21 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 17-29 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 25-41 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Hope Is?

95 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 Hope Is hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Hope Is?

12 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 13, 15, 20 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED