Hot N Cold · Katy Perry

116 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 3:31 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

PopFunk / Soul120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 51% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-34, 55-70 and 93-116 -- 50.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 132 BPM
HOT N COLD · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 8 sections: 107 keep time and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 93-116.

PART B
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
5 groovesCEBS7S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hot N Cold?

132 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 N Cold hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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