Hand In Hand · Beatsteaks

92 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:35 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
2:35
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-12, 14-21 and 57-64, and 1 more place -- 34.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
HAND IN HAND · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 22, 48, 74 and 75.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 74-75 · LANDS ON BAR 76 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

92 bars across 7 sections: 69 keep time, 4 are fills and 13 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-47.

CHORUS
PART E
PART F
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBEFAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hand In Hand?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Hand In Hand hard to play on drums?

52 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 2:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Hand In Hand?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 22, 48, 74 and 75.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED
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