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Hurricane · Arion

Hurricane · Arion
EXERCISE 28 OF 77
Groove U
79 / 155 BARS COVERED
0 / 77 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART AI, PART AU
PART A
PART G
PART K
CHORUS
PART AC
PART AI
PART T
PART AU
PART S14
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
12 groovesQZACS14A+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 16
LINK · 11
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hurricane on drums

155 bars at 182 BPM -- fast, and 3:24 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
182 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
57/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-15, toms through bars 16-24, hi-hat through bars 25-30, toms through bars 31-32 and snare through bars 33-34, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-30, 35 and 41, and 12 more places -- 13% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    41
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x---x-x-x---x-|
Hurricane -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8 and 26 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 65 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 -- Q, Z -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 2-26 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-18 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 14-26 -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Hurricane?

182 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 Hurricane hard to play on drums?

57 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 19 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Hurricane?

11 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED