Everybody Hurts · R.E.M.

164 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 94 BPM, 5:15 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePop90 to 119 BPMShuffle / tripletBeginner
TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
5:15
DIFFICULTY
29/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 70% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-76, 78 and 90, and 1 more place -- 70.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 94 BPM
EVERYBODY HURTS · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 136, 144, 152 and 160.

LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 136 · LANDS ON BAR 137 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 144 · LANDS ON BAR 145
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

164 bars across 4 sections: 154 keep time and 4 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-78.

CHORUS
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesABFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Everybody Hurts?

94 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Everybody Hurts hard to play on drums?

29 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 5:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Everybody Hurts?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 136, 144, 152 and 160.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED
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