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Hush · Kula Shaker

Hush · Kula Shaker
EXERCISE 8 OF 47
Groove H -- Part H
42 / 85 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
CHORUS
PART D
PART H
PART L
PART O
PART B
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCBOHD+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hush on drums

85 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 2:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, snare through bars 9-13, hi-hat through bars 14-16, snare through bars 17-20 and ride through bars 21-23, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-8, 15-16 and 27-28, and 5 more places -- 21% 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+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x--x-x--x---|
BD |x-x---x---xx----|
Hush -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 18, 19, 20, 24, 32, 41 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- B, C -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part H -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part D and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part L -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Hush?

118 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 hard to play on drums?

64 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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?

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 18, 19, 20, 24, 32, 41 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED