Hit Me With Your Best Shot · Pat Benatar

90 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 2:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 13 more places -- 20.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 128 BPM
HIT ME WITH YOUR BEST SHOT · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 9, 13, 25, 29, 33, 40 and 9 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 11 sections: 50 keep time, 16 are fills, 9 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-24.

PART C
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
PART C
PART T
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFBCIT+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hit Me With Your Best Shot?

128 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 Hit Me With Your Best Shot hard to play on drums?

53 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?

90 bars, about 2:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Me With Your Best Shot?

11 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 9, 13, 25, 29, 33, 40 and 9 more.

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