Hard To Handle · Otis Redding

55 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 2:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Funk / Soul90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
55
LENGTH
2:18
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 65% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-14, 19-28 and 35-44, and 1 more place -- 64.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 96 BPM
HARD TO HANDLE · BAR 5
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

55 bars across 6 sections: 43 keep time, 3 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-14.

VERSE
CHORUS
VERSE 2
OUTRO
VERSE 3
3 groovesCDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hard To Handle?

96 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 Handle 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 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

55 bars, about 2:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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