HURT SO GOOD AAA · JOHN COUGAR

112 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 58% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4-5 and 7, and 23 more places -- 58% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
HURT SO GOOD AAA · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 6, 10, 57, 66, 80, 82 and 3 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 105 · LANDS ON BAR 106
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 8 sections: 94 keep time, 9 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-56.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
2 groovesBCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is HURT SO GOOD AAA?

120 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 HURT SO GOOD AAA hard to play on drums?

46 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in HURT SO GOOD AAA?

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 6, 10, 57, 66, 80, 82 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED
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