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Hanging By A Moment · Lifehouse

EXERCISE 22 OF 36
Fill at bar 64 and 98 (a small one)
84 / 106 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hanging By A Moment on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
53/100

ride through bars 1-6, silence through bars 7-8, ride through bars 9-10, silence through bars 11-12, ride through bars 13-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-48, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    33               34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o-o-o-o-o-o-|o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|--x-----x-x-----|
Hanging By A Moment -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- H, F -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 17-41 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part K and Part S7 -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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