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The Hammer · Kublai Khan Tx

EXERCISE 10 OF 41
Groove I -- Outro 2
83 / 136 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT
PART B
CHORUS
PART J
PART N
PART P
BREAK 3
PART N
PART Y
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesENS8PB+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 1
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Hammer on drums

136 bars at 163 BPM -- fast, and 3:20 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
163 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
56/100

toms through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, snare through bars 25-44, hi-hat through bars 45-66, silence through bars 67-79 and snare through bars 80-87, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 14 and 18, and 12 more places -- 24.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------------------------------x-----------|
The Hammer -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 24, 58, 62, 88, 89 and 120.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- F, E -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 33-45 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part N -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Bars 57-83 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Hammer?

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

Is The Hammer hard to play on drums?

56 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 The Hammer?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 24, 58, 62, 88, 89 and 120.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED