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Hostage · Chelsea Grin

EXERCISE 14 OF 42
Run L1 · Part L (bars 17-26)
43 / 103 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART Q
CHORUS 3
PART Z
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesAS9QZAK+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hostage on drums

103 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:10 of playing, on crash, ride, 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
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
69/100

snare through bars 1-8, silence through bars 9-10, snare through bars 11-23, kick and crashes through bars 24-37, snare through bars 38-68 and toms through bars 69-70, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 8 more places -- 13.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 18, 31, 36, 45, 61, 94 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- A, AL (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 17-33 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part Q and the Chorus 3 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 40-59 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Hostage?

130 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 Hostage hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 11 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 Hostage?

7 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 18, 31, 36, 45, 61, 94 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED