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Tales from the Hard Side · Biohazard

EXERCISE 5 OF 72
Groove AE
52 / 221 BARS COVERED
0 / 72 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT
PART H
CHORUS
PART AA
CHORUS 2
PART AA
PART S12
PART AT
CHORUS 3
PART AA
OUTRO
12 groovesYAAATALH+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tales from the Hard Side on drums

221 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 5:01 of it without a break -- 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
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
221
LENGTH
5:01
DIFFICULTY
52/100

ride through bars 2-7, snare through bars 8-9, ride through bars 10-37, hi-hat through bars 38-43, snare through bars 44-45 and hi-hat through bars 46-51, and 22 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38, 40 and 42, and 31 more places -- 16.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----x---x-|
Tales from the Hard Side -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 32 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 56 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 -- Y, AA -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AE -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part E and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part H -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part AA and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part AA and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Tales from the Hard Side?

185 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 Tales from the Hard Side 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

221 bars, about 5:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 17 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 Tales from the Hard Side?

15 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 221 BARS ANALYSED