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Hostage · Fit For An Autopsy

EXERCISE 1 OF 75
Groove O -- Part O
0 / 144 BARS COVERED
0 / 75 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART O
PART S7
CHORUS 3
PART U
PART W
PART AA
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesFORAAU+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hostage on drums

144 bars of 4/4 at 143 BPM, about 4:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
56/100

toms through bar 1, snare through bars 2-30, silence through bars 31-33, snare through bars 34-87, hi-hat through bars 88-95 and snare through bars 96-141, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37, 45 and 58-64, and 4 more places -- 17.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    37
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Hostage -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

21 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 1, 5, 7, 11, 13, 15 and 38 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- O, F -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part S2 -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 41-66 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 67-89 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Hostage?

143 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 Hostage hard to play on drums?

56 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 14 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?

21 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 1, 5, 7, 11, 13, 15 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED