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Hunger Strike · Temple Of The Dog

EXERCISE 10 OF 52
Groove F -- Part F
91 / 137 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, PART D
CHORUS
PART F
PART D
PART G
PART F
PART K
PART K
OUTRO 2
8 groovesAKFLG+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hunger Strike on drums

137 bars of 4/4 at 139 BPM, about 3:57 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
139 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
48/100

hi-hat through bars 1-133 and kick and crashes through bars 134-137.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-39 -- 28.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    1                2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-----g-x-g---g-|x-g-o---x-----gg|
Hunger Strike -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 40, 84, 92, 100, 108, 112 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- A, L -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 50-74 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 92-123 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 96-107 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 107-129 -- 10 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Hunger Strike?

139 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 Hunger Strike hard to play on drums?

48 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 7 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 9 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Hunger Strike?

9 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 40, 84, 92, 100, 108, 112 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED