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Hos Down · Jr Feat Rick Graham

Hos Down · Jr Feat Rick Graham
EXERCISE 20 OF 83
Groove O
75 / 209 BARS COVERED
0 / 83 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 6
JOIN · 16
LINK · 2
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hos Down on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
209
LENGTH
6:39
DIFFICULTY
76/100

silence through bars 1-10, toms through bars 11-12, hi-hat through bars 13-27, snare through bars 28-34, silence through bars 35-40 and toms through bars 41-43, and 25 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    18
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------------------------------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|
Hos Down -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 67 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 -- F -- 4 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AP -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and the Break -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Bars 53-164 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 16 more sittings after that.
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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