Achy Breaky Heart · Billy Ray Cyrus

101 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:14 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Country / FolkRock120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 99% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-100 -- 99% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 125 BPM
ACHY BREAKY HEART · BAR 2
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 101.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 101
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 2 sections: 99 keep time, 1 is a fill and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-100.

OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Achy Breaky Heart?

125 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 Achy Breaky Heart hard to play on drums?

43 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 17 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Achy Breaky Heart?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 101.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
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