Hos Down · Jr Feat Rick Graham

209 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 6:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
209
LENGTH
6:39
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14, 16 and 18-24, and 1 more place -- 8.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
HOS DOWN · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 11, 17, 53, 54, 74, 75 and 18 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 53-54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 74-75 · LANDS ON BAR 76 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

209 bars across 33 sections: 120 keep time, 24 are fills, 1 is a stop and 35 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 99-112.

PART S2
PART F
CHORUS
PART AP
PART AT
PART BB
CHORUS 2
23 groovesKIFAPP+18Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hos Down?

125 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 Hos Down hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 92 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

209 bars, about 6:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 24 sittings, about 24 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 Hos Down?

15 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 11, 17, 53, 54, 74, 75 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 209 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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