Hard Times · Cro-Mags

83 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 1:35 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalPunk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
1:35
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-20, 31 and 34-36, and 6 more places -- 28.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 210 BPM
HARD TIMES · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 1, 21, 45, 75, 82 and 83.

LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 75 · LANDS ON BAR 76
LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 82-83 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

83 bars across 8 sections: 58 keep time, 6 are fills and 11 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-44.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesEBJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hard Times?

210 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Hard Times hard to play on drums?

63 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 1:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Hard Times?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 1, 21, 45, 75, 82 and 83.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED
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