Hum of Hurt · Converge

172 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 150 BPM, 3:26 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-15, 17-19 and 21-23, and 6 more places -- 32.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 150 BPM
HUM OF HURT · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 28, 32, 33 and 40 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 32-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 38-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 14 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

172 bars across 18 sections: 95 keep time, 46 are fills and 14 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 157-172.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesAPENU+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hum of Hurt?

150 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Hum of Hurt hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

172 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Hum of Hurt?

9 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 28, 32, 33 and 40 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 172 BARS ANALYSED
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