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Hour 1 · Scorpions

EXERCISE 30 OF 42
Groove O -- Outro (a two-bar phrase)
89 / 98 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS 3
PART I
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
6 groovesCAIDO+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hour 1 on drums

98 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
59/100

toms through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, toms through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32, kick and crashes through bars 33-34 and toms through bars 35-38, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 25-32 and 43-49, and 2 more places -- 42.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 24, 38, 39, 40, 41 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- C, A -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-76 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 38-52 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 43-66 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Bars 73-83 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 5 and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 11 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Hour 1?

128 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 Hour 1 hard to play on drums?

59 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Hour 1?

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 24, 38, 39, 40, 41 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED