Hung Up · Madonna

160 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 5:05 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO

126 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

160

LENGTH

5:05

DIFFICULTY

48/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-13, hi-hat through bars 14-115, kick and crashes through bars 116-133, snare through bars 134-135 and hi-hat through bars 136-160.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-35, 51-55 and 61-75, and 3 more places -- 28.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-o-x-x-x-o-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- F, E -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
3. Through Part B and the Verse -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
4. Bars 19-52 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
6. Bars 59-88 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
7. Bars 94-106 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
8. Bars 109-116 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
9. and 2 more sittings after that.