Hypotheticals · Lake Street Drive

149 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 3:38 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23, 25-29 and 31-35, and 11 more places -- 32.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 164 BPM
HYPOTHETICALS · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 36, 37, 116, 117, 131, 132 and 4 more.

LOOP · 164 BPM
BARS 36-37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 164 BPM
BARS 131-133 · LANDS ON BAR 134 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

149 bars across 15 sections: 100 keep time, 10 are fills and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-35.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART A
PART J
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
7 groovesCAJS1I+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hypotheticals?

164 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Hypotheticals hard to play on drums?

43 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Hypotheticals?

2 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 36, 37, 116, 117, 131, 132 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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