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Hush · Tool

EXERCISE 6 OF 55
Fill at bar 5, 45, 77 and 89
47 / 116 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT
PART B
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 6
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hush on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
2:49
DIFFICULTY
62/100

hi-hat through bars 2-5, ride through bars 6-21, hi-hat through bars 22-37, ride through bars 38-53, hi-hat through bars 54-69 and ride through bars 70-81, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    38               39
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------------x-|----x-------x---|
RD |----x-x-x-x-x---|x-x-----x-x-----|
SD |--------x-------|----x-------x---|
BD |x---x-x-----x-x-|--x-----x-x-----|
Hush -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N, E -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part E -- 8 exercises, about 37 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part N -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 6-49 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 50-70 -- 8 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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