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Hurts So Good · John Mellencamp

EXERCISE 1 OF 17
Groove C -- Chorus
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PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hurts So Good on drums

109 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 3:28 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
59/100

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 7-9, 11-13 and 31-40, and 6 more places -- 54.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-----g-|
Hurts So Good -- 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, 30, 57, 66, 80 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Hurts So Good?

126 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 Hurts So Good hard to play on drums?

59 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Hurts So Good?

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 6, 10, 30, 57, 66, 80 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED