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Hyperdrive · Devin Townsend

EXERCISE 27 OF 44
Groove O
110 / 133 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, PART D
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hyperdrive on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-6, kick and crashes through bars 7-10, hi-hat through bars 11-25, snare through bars 26-32, ride through bars 33-34 and snare through bars 35-40, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- C, D -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 28-45 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Bars 41-62 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part D and Part R -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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