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Beating Heart Baby · Head Automatica

Beating Heart Baby · Head Automatica
EXERCISE 41 OF 46
Join Outro to Outro 2 (bars 96-98)
110 / 122 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Beating Heart Baby on drums

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.

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-25, snare through bars 26-41, hi-hat through bars 42-57, snare through bars 58-73 and hi-hat through bars 74-80, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    26               27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x---x-xxx-xx|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|x-x---x---------|
Beating Heart Baby -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 24-66 -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and Part P -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part P and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
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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