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Hysteria · Def Leppard

EXERCISE 1 OF 34
Groove A -- Chorus 2
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART M
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesAMBHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hysteria on drums

158 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 5:54 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
5:54
DIFFICULTY
48/100

hi-hat through bars 1-89, snare through bars 90-102 and hi-hat through bars 103-158.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-4, 9-15 and 17-23, and 16 more places -- 48.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 24, 32, 42, 64, 72, 82 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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, B -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part H and Part M -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 87-127 -- 9 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Hysteria?

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

How long is the drum part?

158 bars, about 5:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Hysteria?

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 24, 32, 42, 64, 72, 82 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 158 BARS ANALYSED