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Hot N Cold (Rock Version) · Katy Perry

EXERCISE 1 OF 33
Groove E -- Chorus
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0 / 33 PASSED · 47 BARS LIT
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEAPSS7+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hot N Cold (Rock Version) on drums

117 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 3:33 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
59/100

hi-hat through bars 1-18, snare through bars 19-34, hi-hat through bars 35-54, snare through bars 55-70, hi-hat through bars 71-87 and silence through bars 88-92, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-25, 27-33 and 55-61, and 6 more places -- 42% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Hot N Cold (Rock Version) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 2, 10, 18, 26, 34, 46 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- E, A -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part A -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part P and Part S -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Hot N Cold (Rock Version)?

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 (Rock Version) hard to play on drums?

59 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Hot N Cold (Rock Version)?

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 2, 10, 18, 26, 34, 46 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED