Hit Me Like a Piñata · Her Last Sight, Alon Lifshitz, Ofek Asulin, Liron Avital, Liron Avital, Nir Schwartz

141 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 48-52 and 58-60, and 2 more places -- 17.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
HIT ME LIKE A PIÑATA · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 4, 6, 12, 14, 22, 23 and 13 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

141 bars across 24 sections: 82 keep time, 19 are fills, 5 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 89-96.

PART A
CHORUS
PART Q
PART K
PART AI
PART AK
PART Q
OUTRO
14 groovesNQAIAK+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hit Me Like a Piñata?

125 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Hit Me Like a Piñata hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 17 sittings, about 28 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 Hit Me Like a Piñata?

13 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 4, 6, 12, 14, 22, 23 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED
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