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Hit So Hard · Hole

EXERCISE 21 OF 25
Join Chorus 4 to Part D (bars 76-78)
88 / 94 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 4, PART D
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFCDKS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hit So Hard on drums

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

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-9, hi-hat through bars 10-21, ride through bars 22-25, hi-hat through bars 26-69 and ride through bars 70-73, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
Hit So Hard -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- F, C -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 50-65 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
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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