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This Visual Hex · Vulkan

This Visual Hex · Vulkan
EXERCISE 16 OF 100
Fill at bar 27 (a small one)
83 / 309 BARS COVERED
0 / 100 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART BL
BREAK 3
17 groovesS19DBLOS16+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 22
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 3
JOIN · 15
LINK · 7
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play This Visual Hex on drums

309 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 195 BPM, 8:30 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
309
LENGTH
8:30
DIFFICULTY
53/100

hi-hat through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-32, hi-hat through bars 33-36, snare through bars 37-40, hi-hat through bars 41-64 and ride through bars 65-67, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-18, 21 and 25, and 5 more places -- 12.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |------------x-----x-|
BD |x---x-x---x---x-----|
This Visual Hex -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 7, 8, 19, 20, 23, 24 and 46 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 79 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 -- D, BL -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 46-63 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 16 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is This Visual Hex?

195 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is This Visual Hex hard to play on drums?

53 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

309 bars, about 8:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 79 exercises over 24 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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.

How many fills are in This Visual Hex?

20 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 7, 8, 19, 20, 23, 24 and 46 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 309 BARS ANALYSED