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Hope For A Normal Life · Hardcore Superstar

Hope For A Normal Life · Hardcore Superstar
EXERCISE 1 OF 43
Groove B -- Part B
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PART C
PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART G
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
8 groovesFBCEG+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 12
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hope For A Normal Life on drums

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

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
4:46
DIFFICULTY
55/100

hi-hat through bars 3-140, toms through bars 141-145, hi-hat through bars 146-152 and toms through bars 153-155.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
Hope For A Normal Life -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F, C -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 12-36 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 29-79 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 79-87 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 85-102 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 101-135 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Bars 131-141 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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