On The Hunt · Lynyrd Skynyrd

84 bars, 5:20, at 63 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

RockJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
63 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
5:20
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 25-31 and 57-63 -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 63 BPM
ON THE HUNT · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 18 and 21 more.

LOOP · 63 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 63 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 63 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 63 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars across 13 sections: 42 keep time, 27 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-15.

CHORUS
PART G
PART G
PART N
PART G
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEGAAINFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is On The Hunt?

63 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is On The Hunt hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 5:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 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 On The Hunt?

15 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 18 and 21 more.

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