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Hush (feat. Ellie Goulding) · Muse

EXERCISE 6 OF 45
Fill at bar 24 (a small one)
44 / 108 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART G
CHORUS
PART G
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART P
CHORUS 3
BREAK 3
10 groovesCS14GIP+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hush (feat. Ellie Goulding) on drums

108 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 3:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
34/100

silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32, toms through bars 33-37 and snare through bars 38-46, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-23 and 47-54 -- 24.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Hush (feat. Ellie Goulding) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 8, 12, 24, 42, 44, 72 and 3 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 -- G, C, I -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 9-28 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Bars 46-55 -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 53-66 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part P -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Hush (feat. Ellie Goulding)?

145 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 Hush (feat. Ellie Goulding) 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Hush (feat. Ellie Goulding)?

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 8, 12, 24, 42, 44, 72 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED