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Hurricane · Kyuss

EXERCISE 27 OF 44
Groove L
95 / 108 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, OUTRO
PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEDIPAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hurricane on drums

108 bars at 167 BPM -- fast, and 2:35 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
167 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
2:35
DIFFICULTY
60/100

hi-hat through bars 1-49, ride through bars 50-64, hi-hat through bars 65-84, ride through bars 85-100 and snare through bars 101-108.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 25 more places -- 30.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
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

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 16, 24, 32 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- D, E -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 6-37 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Hurricane?

167 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?

60 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 2:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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?

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 16, 24, 32 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED