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Hard To Handle · The Black Crowes

EXERCISE 1 OF 32
Groove A -- Part A
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PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesEAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hard To Handle on drums

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.

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
51/100

hi-hat through bars 1-79 and kick and crashes through bars 80-84.

The beat

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.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |x---------x-----|
Hard To Handle -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- A -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 66-80 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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