Hurricane Years · Alice Cooper

130 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 21 and 23, and 9 more places -- 18.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
HURRICANE YEARS · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 1, 5, 8, 9, 17, 25 and 29 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

130 bars across 10 sections: 81 keep time, 35 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-24.

PART B
CHORUS
PART Q
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART Z
PART AG
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDAPBAGZ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hurricane Years?

130 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 Hurricane Years hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. 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 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Hurricane Years?

21 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 1, 5, 8, 9, 17, 25 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED
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