Harder To Breathe · Maroon 5

106 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 2:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopAlternative / Indie150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-29, 46-61 and 66-80, and 1 more place -- 55.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 152 BPM
HARDER TO BREATHE · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 81.

LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 81 · LANDS ON BAR 82
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 8 sections: 95 keep time, 3 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-16.

PART B
CHORUS
PART E
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDBEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Harder To Breathe?

152 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 To Breathe hard to play on drums?

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 2:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Harder To Breathe?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 81.

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