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Hurt So Good · John Cougar Mellencamp

EXERCISE 9 OF 31
Groove F
91 / 110 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hurt So Good on drums

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.

52 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
110
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
52/100

hi-hat through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-13, hi-hat through bars 14-30, ride through bars 31-41, hi-hat through bars 42-57 and ride through bars 58-110.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-----x-|
Hurt So Good -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- C, A -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Bars 10-25 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 26-67 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
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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