Hyperdrive · Devin Townsend

133 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 3:25 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

ProgressiveMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-25, 45-59 and 87-93 -- 29.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 156 BPM
HYPERDRIVE · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 32, 44, 64, 65, 66, 67 and 8 more.

LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 156 BPM
BARS 64-68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 156 BPM
BARS 77-78 · LANDS ON BAR 79 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars across 14 sections: 94 keep time, 14 are fills, 3 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-26.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART E
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCDEJS+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hyperdrive?

156 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 Hyperdrive hard to play on drums?

50 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Hyperdrive?

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 32, 44, 64, 65, 66, 67 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED
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