Hypnotize · Audioslave

97 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:14 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 87% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-28, 30-36 and 38-52, and 8 more places -- 86.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
HYPNOTIZE · BAR 10
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 2 sections: 88 keep time, 1 is a stop and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-96.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hypnotize?

120 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 Hypnotize hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 3 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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