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Square Hammer · Ghost

EXERCISE 11 OF 43
Groove H
96 / 127 BARS COVERED
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PART B
PART D
PART G
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesIDGMB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Square Hammer on drums

127 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
55/100

hi-hat through bars 2-33, ride through bars 34-48, hi-hat through bars 49-67, ride through bars 68-81, snare through bars 82-103 and ride through bars 104-119, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 34-39, 42-47 and 68-74, and 3 more places -- 29.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    34               35
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------------x-|------------x---|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x---|x-x-x-x-x-x-----|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|--x-----x-x-----|
Square Hammer -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 9, 25, 33, 40, 41, 51 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- I, D -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 27-127 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Bars 48-82 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 78-94 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Square Hammer?

130 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 Square Hammer hard to play on drums?

55 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 8 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Square Hammer?

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 9, 25, 33, 40, 41, 51 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED