Hit So Hard · Hole

94 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 3:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-20, 26-28 and 30-36, and 9 more places -- 40.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 98 BPM
HIT SO HARD · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 8 times: bars 13, 25, 61, 73, 79, 81 and 2 more.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

94 bars across 13 sections: 65 keep time, 8 are fills, 1 is a stop and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-52.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFCDKS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hit So Hard?

98 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 So Hard hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Hit So Hard?

1 fill to learn, played 8 times: bars 13, 25, 61, 73, 79, 81 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED
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