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Hard Times · Paramore

EXERCISE 7 OF 40
Groove G
49 / 90 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFCOS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hard Times on drums

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.

64 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
90
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-17, hi-hat through bars 18-26, toms through bars 27-39 and hi-hat through bars 40-90.

The beat

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.

    20
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxx-xxxxxxx-xxx|
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

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- F -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 15-31 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 45-60 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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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?

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