The Working Hour · Tears For Fears

141 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 5:32 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and floor tom.

PopAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
5:32
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 99% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-140 -- 99.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 102 BPM
THE WORKING HOUR · BARS 1-2
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

141 bars: 140 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-140.

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

Questions

What BPM is The Working Hour?

102 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 Working Hour hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 5:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 3 exercises over 2 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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