Hip To Be Square · Huey Lewis And The News

139 bars of 4/4 at 143 BPM, about 3:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 63% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-19 and 21-24, and 23 more places -- 62.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 143 BPM
HIP TO BE SQUARE · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 9, 29, 37, 53, 69, 92 and 9 more.

LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70
LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 94 · LANDS ON BAR 95 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 114 · LANDS ON BAR 115

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

139 bars across 2 sections: 118 keep time, 19 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 70-91.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBPFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hip To Be Square?

143 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 Hip To Be Square hard to play on drums?

60 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Hip To Be Square?

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 9, 29, 37, 53, 69, 92 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED
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