The Hills · The Weeknd

102 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 3:37 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Funk / SoulHip Hop / Reggae90 to 119 BPMShuffle / tripletBeginner
TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 66% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 22-28, 30-36 and 55-61, and 3 more places -- 65.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 113 BPM
THE HILLS · BARS 22-23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 10 sections: 64 keep time and 38 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-37.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
BREAK 2
PART C
CHORUS 2
BREAK 4
OUTRO
7 groovesECS9S1S5+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Hills?

113 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Hills hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, 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.

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