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Hypernight · Title Fight

EXERCISE 4 OF 29
Groove I -- Part I
35 / 88 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART L, PART I
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART I
6 groovesBLIFS+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hypernight on drums

88 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 2:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
2:49
DIFFICULTY
57/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-33, toms through bars 34-36, hi-hat through bars 37-53, ride through bars 54-69 and toms through bars 70-71, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-3, 6-7 and 10-11, and 8 more places -- 25.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    2                3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-o-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----x---|------x-----x---|
BD |x---x-----x-----|x-x-x-----x-----|
Hypernight -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 28, 35, 37, 57, 61, 72 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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, G -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 1-38 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 54-88 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Hypernight?

124 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Hypernight hard to play on drums?

57 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 2:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 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 Hypernight?

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 28, 35, 37, 57, 61, 72 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED