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Harder To Breathe · Maroon 5

EXERCISE 1 OF 17
Groove D -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Harder To Breathe on drums

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

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
49/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-17, ride through bars 18-37, hi-hat through bars 38-45 and ride through bars 46-106.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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, B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-31 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 26-69 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED