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Hit In The Usa · Beat Crusaders

Hit In The Usa · Beat Crusaders
EXERCISE 32 OF 49
3-bar fill at bar 92
107 / 122 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N
PART E
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART K
PART A
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBEGAK+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 8
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hit In The Usa on drums

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.

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
46/100

toms through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-11, snare through bars 12-20, toms through bars 21-28, hi-hat through bars 29-35 and snare through bars 36-44, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5                6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o---o---o---o-|--o---o---o---o-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
FT |----x-------x---|----x-----x-x---|
BD |x-------x-----x-|--x-----x-x-----|
Hit In The Usa -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- B, E -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 11-31 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 59-82 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part A and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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