KINDA HARD · BILMURI

42 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 1:14 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
42
LENGTH
1:14
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 19-21 and 23-24 -- 16.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 133 BPM
KINDA HARD · BARS 19-20
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 14, 16, 34, 38 and 40.

LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

42 bars across 6 sections: 14 keep time, 5 are fills, 10 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-25.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesS1CPS2H+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is KINDA HARD?

133 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 KINDA HARD hard to play on drums?

56 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

42 bars, about 1:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 KINDA HARD?

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 14, 16, 34, 38 and 40.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 42 BARS ANALYSED
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