Tougher Than the Rest (best of) · Bruce Springsteen

116 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:31 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopRock90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
4:31
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 95% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-13, 15 and 17, and 4 more places -- 94.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 100 BPM
TOUGHER THAN THE REST (BEST OF) · BAR 1
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars: 116 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-116.

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

Questions

What BPM is Tougher Than the Rest (best of)?

100 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 Tougher Than the Rest (best of) 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 4:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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