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EXERCISE 24 OF 43
Join Part H to Part I (bars 43-45)
116 / 138 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, PART I
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hard Times on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
62/100

hi-hat through bar 1, kick and crashes through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-13, snare through bars 14-21, hi-hat through bars 22-44 and snare through bars 45-52, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |--------------x-|
HH |x-x-x--x-x-x--x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x----x-x----x---|
Hard Times -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- D, M -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 14-52 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Bars 36-45 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 43-82 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part I and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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