Hanging By A Moment · Lifehouse

106 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePop120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 33-39, 41-47 and 83-89, and 2 more places -- 35.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 125 BPM
HANGING BY A MOMENT · BARS 33-34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 20, 32, 40, 48, 56, 60 and 7 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 9 sections: 71 keep time, 13 are fills, 9 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-31.

PART B
PART D
PART F
CHORUS
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesHKFRB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hanging By A Moment?

125 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 Hanging By A Moment hard to play on drums?

53 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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 Hanging By A Moment?

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 20, 32, 40, 48, 56, 60 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED
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