ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hybrid Earth on drums

82 bars of 8/4 -- not four -- at 150 BPM, 3:42 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 150 BPM
TIME: 8/4
BARS: 82
LENGTH: 3:42
DIFFICULTY: 72/100

snare through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-18, snare through bars 19-20, hi-hat through bars 21-34, ride through bars 35-36 and toms through bars 37-40, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 27-28, 30-31 and 51-52 -- 11.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    27                                                               28
    1.......2.......3.......4.......5.......6.......7.......8....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......5.......6.......7.......8.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------------------------------|
HH |----------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------o-----------------------|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|----------------x-------------------x---x-------x-------x-g-x-g-|
T2 |----------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------x-------------|
FT |----------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------x---x-x-x---x---x-------x---x---x-------x-x-x---x---|x-----------x---x-x-x---x---x---------------x-x-------x---------|

Hybrid Earth -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 6, 9, 13 and 25 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- AB -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part Z -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
Bars 25-40 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Through Part S4 and the Break 2 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
Through the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
and 1 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Hybrid Earth?

150 BPM, in 8/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Hybrid Earth hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Hybrid Earth?

12 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 6, 9, 13 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED