Hypnotize · System of a Down

114 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 3:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-38, 45-60 and 67, and 3 more places -- 36.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 152 BPM
HYPNOTIZE · BAR 24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 21, 22, 70, 96, 106, 112 and 1 more.

LOOP · 152 BPM
BARS 21-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 96 · LANDS ON BAR 97
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 106 · LANDS ON BAR 107
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 10 sections: 82 keep time, 7 are fills and 14 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-20.

PART A
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART J
PART L
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDAJEL+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hypnotize?

152 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?

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 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 Hypnotize?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 21, 22, 70, 96, 106, 112 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED
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