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Everybody Hurts · R.E.M.

EXERCISE 1 OF 15
Groove A -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesABFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Everybody Hurts on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
5:15
DIFFICULTY
29/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Everybody Hurts -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

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 -- A -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 87-137 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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