Hunted Down · Soundgarden

106 bars at 166 BPM -- fast, and 2:33 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
166 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
2:33
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-15, 21-27 and 53-59, and 2 more places -- 29.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 166 BPM
HUNTED DOWN · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 16, 20, 28, 44, 51, 52 and 7 more.

LOOP · 166 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 166 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 166 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 166 BPM
BARS 51-52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 10 sections: 76 keep time, 13 are fills and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 94-106.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART I
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBERIP+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hunted Down?

166 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 Hunted Down hard to play on drums?

55 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 2:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 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 Hunted Down?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 16, 20, 28, 44, 51, 52 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED
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