hostage · Maggie Lindemann

67 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 2:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
2:38
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-34 and 52-67 -- 49.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 102 BPM
HOSTAGE · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

67 bars across 5 sections: 60 keep time, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-17.

CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is hostage?

102 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?

54 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 2:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 67 BARS ANALYSED
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