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The Hills · The Weeknd

EXERCISE 1 OF 13
Groove E -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
BREAK 2
PART C
CHORUS 2
BREAK 4
OUTRO
7 groovesECS9S1S5+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Hills on drums

102 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 3:37 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.

TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
42/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-37, silence through bars 38-45, hi-hat through bars 46-70, silence through bars 71-86 and hi-hat through bars 87-102.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 22-28, 30-36 and 55-61, and 3 more places -- 65.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    22                       23
    1.....2.....3.....4..... 1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |g-----------------------|------------------------|
HH |---x--x--o--x--x--x--x--|xxxx--x--o--x--x--x--xx-|
SD |------------x-----------|------------x-----------|
T2 |------------------------|------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------x-----|---x--x-----------------|
The Hills -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- E -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. Through Part C and the Break -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Break 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Hills?

113 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Hills hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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.

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