Hope Of Deliverance · Paul McCartney

130 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:15 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
13/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-36 and 61-66 -- 9.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
HOPE OF DELIVERANCE · BAR 61
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 5 and 6.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 5-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

130 bars across 6 sections: 22 keep time, 2 are fills, 98 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 32-36.

PART S2
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesES2FDC+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hope Of Deliverance?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Hope Of Deliverance hard to play on drums?

13 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Hope Of Deliverance?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 5 and 6.

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