Hurt So Good · John Cougar Mellencamp

110 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:40 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
110
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 19 more places -- 33.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
HURT SO GOOD · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 5, 9, 30, 57, 66, 80 and 5 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 80-82 · LANDS ON BAR 83 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

110 bars across 10 sections: 88 keep time, 11 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-56.

PART C
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesACDS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hurt So Good?

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 hard to play on drums?

52 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?

110 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 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?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 5, 9, 30, 57, 66, 80 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED
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