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Hard To Find The Words · Cinderella

EXERCISE 31 OF 78
Groove M -- Part M
117 / 155 BARS COVERED
0 / 78 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART M
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 8
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hard To Find The Words on drums

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.

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
5:23
DIFFICULTY
36/100

silence through bars 1-7, ride through bars 8-12, hi-hat through bars 13-50, kick and crashes through bars 51-53, toms through bars 54-57 and hi-hat through bars 58-80, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Hard To Find The Words -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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, C -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-125 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-43 -- 8 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part M -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 55-84 -- 10 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 81-103 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 102-113 -- 9 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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