Make It Hurt · Narrow Head

165 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 20 and 22, and 25 more places -- 27.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 160 BPM
MAKE IT HURT · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 24, 40, 56, 80, 97, 117 and 5 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 139-141 · LANDS ON BAR 142 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 165
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

165 bars across 13 sections: 76 keep time, 11 are fills and 59 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-15.

PART A
CHORUS
PART F
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART N
OUTRO
8 groovesCEFAR+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Make It Hurt?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Make It Hurt hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Make It Hurt?

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 24, 40, 56, 80, 97, 117 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED
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