Hope For A Normal Life · Hardcore Superstar

155 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:46 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Rock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
4:46
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 7, and 35 more places -- 29.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
HOPE FOR A NORMAL LIFE · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 18, 34, 86, 110, 122, 133 and 5 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 86 · LANDS ON BAR 87
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 122 · LANDS ON BAR 123
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 133-134 · LANDS ON BAR 135 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

155 bars across 15 sections: 125 keep time, 12 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-74.

PART C
PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
8 groovesFBCEG+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hope For A Normal Life?

130 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 Hope For A Normal Life hard to play on drums?

55 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?

155 bars, about 4:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Hope For A Normal Life?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 18, 34, 86, 110, 122, 133 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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