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Hurricane · Cannons

Hurricane · Cannons
EXERCISE 4 OF 24
Groove D
50 / 77 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART F
PART G
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCGEFS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hurricane on drums

77 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 2:57 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
35/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-21, snare through bars 22-24, hi-hat through bars 25-41, snare through bars 42-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-77.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-16, 18-20 and 29-36, and 4 more places -- 54.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Hurricane -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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, F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 23-49 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Bars 51-65 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 4 and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Hurricane?

104 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 Hurricane hard to play on drums?

35 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED