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Hurricane · Band Of Heathens

Hurricane · Band Of Heathens
EXERCISE 6 OF 17
Run C1 · Chorus (bars 5-42)
51 / 71 BARS COVERED
0 / 17 PASSED · 38 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCIS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hurricane on drums

71 bars, 4:11, at 65 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
65 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
34/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-42, silence through bars 43-46 and hi-hat through bars 47-71.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-13, 15-21 and 23-29, and 3 more places -- 73% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Hurricane -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 22, 51, 62, 63 and 71.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- C -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 5-65 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Hurricane?

65 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Hurricane hard to play on drums?

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

71 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Hurricane?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 22, 51, 62, 63 and 71.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 71 BARS ANALYSED