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H.A.R.D · Apace

EXERCISE 30 OF 30
Play the whole song with the record
103 / 107 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 107 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART F
CHORUS 3
BREAK
PART J
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesAJECF+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play H.A.R.D on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
64/100

snare through bars 1-7, toms through bars 8-16, snare through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32, ride through bars 33-36 and snare through bars 37-53, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    59
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|
H.A.R.D -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- J -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-20 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 31-54 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 58-94 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED