With My Own Two Hands · Ben Harper

62 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:06 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Country / FolkAlternative / IndieUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-6, 25-27 and 34-36, and 2 more places -- 22.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 80 BPM
WITH MY OWN TWO HANDS · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

62 bars across 4 sections: 56 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-44.

CHORUS
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCVKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is With My Own Two Hands?

80 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 With My Own Two Hands hard to play on drums?

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

62 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 9 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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