Beating Heart Baby · Head Automatica

122 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:14 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 24, 26-32 and 34-38, and 7 more places -- 41.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BEATING HEART BABY · BARS 26-27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 9, 25, 33, 39, 41, 57 and 13 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

122 bars across 10 sections: 77 keep time, 19 are fills, 9 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-32.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesECPMS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Beating Heart Baby?

150 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 Beating Heart Baby hard to play on drums?

47 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 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.

How many fills are in Beating Heart Baby?

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 9, 25, 33, 39, 41, 57 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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