Hush · Tool

116 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 2:49 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
2:49
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6, 16 and 20, and 6 more places -- 17.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 164 BPM
HUSH · BARS 38-39
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 5, 13, 19, 37, 45, 69 and 6 more.

LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 14 sections: 85 keep time, 12 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 57-65.

PART E
PART N
CHORUS
PART E
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART Z
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesDENAFAC+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hush?

164 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 Hush hard to play on drums?

62 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 2:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 5, 13, 19, 37, 45, 69 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED
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