The Hills · Rachel Chinouriri

61 bars, 3:15, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 17-18 and 21-23, and 5 more places -- 33.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 75 BPM
THE HILLS · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 2, 12, 16, 41, 53 and 57.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

61 bars across 7 sections: 49 keep time, 6 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-11.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesECJS1S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Hills?

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

Is The Hills hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

61 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Hills?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 2, 12, 16, 41, 53 and 57.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 61 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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