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HURT SO GOOD AAA · JOHN COUGAR

HURT SO GOOD AAA · JOHN COUGAR
EXERCISE 8 OF 19
Hold Groove B for 8 bars -- Chorus (bars 1-8)
102 / 112 BARS COVERED
0 / 19 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
2 groovesBCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play HURT SO GOOD AAA on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
46/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-----x-|
HURT SO GOOD AAA -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- B, C -- 7 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 1-104 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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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