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Hypersomniac · Vianova

EXERCISE 28 OF 61
Fill at bar 28 (a small one)
36 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART O
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hypersomniac on drums

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.

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
4:41
DIFFICULTY
42/100

snare through bars 1-12, ride through bars 13-17, snare through bars 18-23, toms through bars 24-25, snare through bars 26-40 and ride through bars 41-51, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x---x-x---x---x---x---x-|
Hypersomniac -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- D, BA -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 6-17 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 11-25 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part O and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 10 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part BA -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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