The Hunger · The Distillers

142 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 4:28 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-37 and 54-77 -- 38.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 127 BPM
THE HUNGER · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 5.

LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

142 bars across 5 sections: 59 keep time, 1 is a fill, 65 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 54-77.

PART S2
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
5 groovesDES4S2S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Hunger?

127 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 Hunger 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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.

How many fills are in The Hunger?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 5.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED
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