Hit In The Usa · Beat Crusaders

122 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 2:57 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-10, 29-31 and 33-34, and 9 more places -- 26.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 165 BPM
HIT IN THE USA · BARS 5-6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 60, 68, 92, 93, 94, 104 and 2 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69
LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 92-94 · LANDS ON BAR 95 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 104 · LANDS ON BAR 105

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

122 bars across 14 sections: 87 keep time, 8 are fills and 6 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 80-88.

PART E
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART K
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBEGAK+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hit In The Usa?

165 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 Hit In The Usa hard to play on drums?

46 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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 Hit In The Usa?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 60, 68, 92, 93, 94, 104 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED
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