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Hydra · Fit For An Autopsy

EXERCISE 7 OF 60
Groove F
54 / 124 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART M
PART Z
PART AD
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO
12 groovesBKMADZ+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 2
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hydra on drums

124 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
67/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-24, snare through bars 25-26, hi-hat through bars 27-28, snare through bars 29-30 and hi-hat through bars 31-32, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 7 more places -- 22.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    5                                                                6
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
SD |--------------------------------f-------------------------------|--------------------------------f-------------------------------|
T1 |x-------x---------------------------------------x-------x-------|x-------x-----------------------------------------------x---x---|
T2 |x-------x---------------------------------------x-------x-------|x-------x-------------------------------------------------------|
BD |----------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------x---------------------------------------|
Hydra -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 28, 32, 36, 48, 52, 56 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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, M -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  6. Through Part K -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part M -- 3 exercises, about 12 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Hydra?

120 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Hydra hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Hydra?

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 28, 32, 36, 48, 52, 56 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED