Hard To Handle · The Black Crowes

84 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 3:14 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 11 more places -- 35.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 104 BPM
HARD TO HANDLE · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 5, 13, 15, 17, 19, 27 and 17 more.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars across 6 sections: 46 keep time, 23 are fills and 9 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-12.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesEAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hard To Handle?

104 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?

51 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

10 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 5, 13, 15, 17, 19, 27 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED
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