Hard Times · Blank Label

138 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-12, 22-36 and 53-67 -- 26.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
HARD TIMES · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 1, 13, 44, 68, 81, 89 and 3 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 89 · LANDS ON BAR 90 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

138 bars across 12 sections: 108 keep time, 9 are fills and 8 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 91-121.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART K
PART I
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDMIFH+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hard Times?

120 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 Hard Times hard to play on drums?

62 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 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 4:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Hard Times?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 1, 13, 44, 68, 81, 89 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED
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