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Hard Times · Cro-Mags

Hard Times · Cro-Mags
EXERCISE 20 OF 27
Fill at bar 75 (a small one)
72 / 83 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hard Times on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
1:35
DIFFICULTY
63/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-21, snare through bars 22-29, hi-hat through bars 30-45, snare through bars 46-53 and hi-hat through bars 54-68, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- E, B -- 5 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part B -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
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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