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Hosanna · Marco Barrientos

Hosanna · Marco Barrientos
EXERCISE 12 OF 62
Groove J -- Part J
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PART D
CHORUS
PART H
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART H
PART K
PART J
PART D
13 groovesFKDJH+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hosanna on drums

165 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 4:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
4:31
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-16, hi-hat through bars 17-36, ride through bars 37-39, toms through bars 40-41 and snare through bars 42-47, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-36, 61-67 and 69-80 -- 25.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    17               18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxxxx-xx--x|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-----x--xx-|
BD |x-x-------------|x-x-------------|
Hosanna -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 40, 84, 102, 107, 108, 112 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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, D -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 42-100 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 97-117 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Hosanna?

146 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Hosanna hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 4:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Hosanna?

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 40, 84, 102, 107, 108, 112 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED