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Hypersonic Missiles · Sam Fender

EXERCISE 9 OF 26
Run C1 · Part C (bars 28-43)
91 / 140 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
BREAK 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART C
CHORUS 4
PART S10
OUTRO 2
6 groovesACS4S10D+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hypersonic Missiles on drums

140 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
48/100

snare through bars 1-6, silence through bars 7-8, snare through bars 9-11, silence through bars 12-27, toms through bars 28-43 and hi-hat through bars 44-59, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-6, 9-11 and 44-46, and 11 more places -- 49.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    44
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
Hypersonic Missiles -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 42, 43, 74, 75 and 121.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- A, C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 5-44 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus 3 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 66-73 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 74-105 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Hypersonic Missiles?

130 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 Hypersonic Missiles hard to play on drums?

48 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 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 Hypersonic Missiles?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 42, 43, 74, 75 and 121.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED