H.A.R.D · Apace

107 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 59-74 and 91-106 -- 31.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
H.A.R.D · BAR 59
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 16, 37 and 58.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 11 sections: 88 keep time, 3 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 59-74.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART J
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesAJECF+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is H.A.R.D?

140 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 H.A.R.D hard to play on drums?

64 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in H.A.R.D?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 16, 37 and 58.

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