Hard To Say I'm Sorry · Chicago

179 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:41 of playing, on crash, ride, high tom, mid tom and floor tom.

PopRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
179
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
19/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 55-109 and 111-122 -- 59.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
HARD TO SAY I'M SORRY · BAR 55
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 139, 141, 143 and 178.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 139 · LANDS ON BAR 140 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 141 · LANDS ON BAR 142 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

179 bars across 5 sections: 102 keep time, 4 are fills, 6 are stops and 66 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 55-109.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBS1IS3AFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hard To Say I'm Sorry?

140 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 Say I'm Sorry hard to play on drums?

19 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 8 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

179 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, high tom, mid tom and floor tom. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Hard To Say I'm Sorry?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 139, 141, 143 and 178.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 179 BARS ANALYSED
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