Red Right Hand · Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

114 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 4:02 of playing, on crash, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 95% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-31, 33-51 and 53-55, and 2 more places -- 94.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 113 BPM
RED RIGHT HAND · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 32, 52 and 56.

LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars: 111 keep time and 3 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 57-114.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Red Right Hand?

113 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 Red Right Hand hard to play on drums?

58 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 3 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Red Right Hand?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 32, 52 and 56.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED
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