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HUGs (full) · Paledusk

EXERCISE 11 OF 64
Groove D -- Part D
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PART C
PART D
PART A
PART P
PART Z
CHORUS
PART AM
PART P
PART Z
PART A
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
14 groovesAFPZAAM+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 4
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play HUGs (full) on drums

159 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 3:26 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
53/100

snare through bars 3-7, kick and crashes through bars 8-9, snare through bars 10-16, toms through bars 17-21, snare through bars 22-25 and silence through bars 26-32, and 24 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 61-62, 111-112 and 134-140, and 1 more place -- 8.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    134
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
HUGs (full) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 11, 13, 15, 16, 34, 35 and 44 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 -- AF -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Z, C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 14-25 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 24-38 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part A and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part P -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is HUGs (full)?

185 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is HUGs (full) hard to play on drums?

53 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?

159 bars, about 3:26 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, 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 HUGs (full)?

10 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 11, 13, 15, 16, 34, 35 and 44 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 159 BARS ANALYSED