The Hardest Part · Olivia Dean, Leon Bridges

66 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 2:47 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 80% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-21, 24-31 and 33-43, and 2 more places -- 79.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 95 BPM
THE HARDEST PART · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

66 bars across 11 sections: 46 keep time and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-43.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART C
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBS1CDS3+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Hardest Part?

95 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 The Hardest Part hard to play on drums?

39 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 2:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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