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hostage · Maggie Lindemann

hostage · Maggie Lindemann
EXERCISE 4 OF 11
Groove C
62 / 67 BARS COVERED
0 / 11 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play hostage on drums

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

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

TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
2:38
DIFFICULTY
54/100

hi-hat through bars 3-18, snare through bars 19-34, hi-hat through bars 35-50 and snare through bars 51-67.

The beat

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.

    19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x-x-x--x-----|
hostage -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- D, B -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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