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HARD2TELL · Bilmuri

EXERCISE 31 OF 38
Fill at bar 100 (a small one)
93 / 116 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART B
CHORUS
PART H
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART D
OUTRO
8 groovesEBDAH+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play HARD2TELL on drums

116 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:54 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-20, snare through bars 21-40, hi-hat through bars 41-46, snare through bars 47-77 and silence through bars 78-80, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21, 23 and 25, and 28 more places -- 28.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x---|
HARD2TELL -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 46, 64, 68, 72, 74, 84 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- D, E -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 46-75 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 81-93 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is HARD2TELL?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is HARD2TELL hard to play on drums?

48 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 6 sittings, about 30 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 HARD2TELL?

9 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 46, 64, 68, 72, 74, 84 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED