Hot, Hot, Hot!!! · The Cure

74 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 2:39 of playing, on crash, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieElectronic90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
2:39
DIFFICULTY
35/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 89% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-8, 10-24 and 26-32, and 4 more places -- 89% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 112 BPM
HOT, HOT, HOT!!! · BARS 2-3
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

74 bars across 2 sections: 72 keep time, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-73.

OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hot, Hot, Hot!!!?

112 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 Hot, Hot, Hot!!! hard to play on drums?

35 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 2:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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