Hypersomniac · Vianova

120 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 135 BPM, 4:41 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
4:41
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 29-30, and 1 more place -- 6.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
HYPERSOMNIAC · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 11, 16, 19, 20, 24, 28 and 31 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 8 sections: 41 keep time, 37 are fills, 3 are stops and 29 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-6.

PART A
PART H
PART O
CHORUS
PART BA
OUTRO
BREAK
8 groovesVS8BAOH+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hypersomniac?

135 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Hypersomniac hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 4:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 10 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

17 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 11, 16, 19, 20, 24, 28 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED
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