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Harder Better Faster Stronger · Daft Punk

EXERCISE 19 OF 31
Fill at bar 74 and 114 (a small one)
98 / 114 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L, OUTRO 2
PART D
CHORUS
PART L
PART Q
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesHQDLR+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Harder Better Faster Stronger on drums

114 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
52/100

snare through bars 3-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-6, snare through bars 7-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-10, hi-hat through bars 11-12 and ride through bars 13-14, and 28 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-14, 17-18 and 21-22, and 9 more places -- 21.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
FT |x---x---x---x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Harder Better Faster Stronger -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 74 and 114.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- H, F (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part L -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 80-102 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Harder Better Faster Stronger?

125 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 Harder Better Faster Stronger hard to play on drums?

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Harder Better Faster Stronger?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 74 and 114.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED