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The Hardest Part · Olivia Dean, Leon Bridges

The Hardest Part · Olivia Dean, Leon Bridges
EXERCISE 14 OF 14
Play the whole song with the record
51 / 66 BARS COVERED
0 / 14 PASSED · 66 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
CHORUS 3
PART C
BREAK 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBS1CDS3+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Hardest Part on drums

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

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
39/100

silence through bars 1-13, hi-hat through bars 14-21, silence through bars 22-23, hi-hat through bars 24-58, snare through bars 59-62 and hi-hat through bars 63-66.

The beat

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.

    14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
The Hardest Part -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- B -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 42-49 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 57-63 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 66 BARS ANALYSED