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The Hammer · Dethklok

EXERCISE 30 OF 50
Join Chorus 3 to Part L (bars 64-66)
119 / 161 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3, PART L
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART L
PART P
PART D
OUTRO
5 groovesBLDPIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 10
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Hammer on drums

161 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 4:26 of playing, on crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
61/100

snare through bar 1 and toms through bars 2-161.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-16, 34-40 and 42-48, and 3 more places -- 29.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
FT |x-------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
The Hammer -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 17, 25, 33, 41, 49, 57 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 34-61 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part L and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Hammer?

145 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 The Hammer hard to play on drums?

61 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?

161 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in The Hammer?

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 17, 25, 33, 41, 49, 57 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED