Hard Times · Paramore

90 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 20 and 22, and 19 more places -- 30.2% 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 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 4, 21, 25, 26, 30, 34 and 15 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 8 sections: 61 keep time, 21 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-16.

PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFCOS1S3Fill 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?

64 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 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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?

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 4, 21, 25, 26, 30, 34 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED
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