Hard To Find The Words · Cinderella

155 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 5:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
5:23
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13, 17-20 and 26-33, and 16 more places -- 37.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 115 BPM
HARD TO FIND THE WORDS · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 7, 14, 16, 25, 34, 38 and 31 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

155 bars across 20 sections: 50 keep time, 37 are fills, 46 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 149-155.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART M
CHORUS 6
PART I
CHORUS 8
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFIMCD+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hard To Find The Words?

115 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 To Find The Words hard to play on drums?

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 5:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 To Find The Words?

22 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 7, 14, 16, 25, 34, 38 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED
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