Beer Never Broke My Heart · Luke Combs

119 bars of 4/4 at 154 BPM, about 3:05 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Country / FolkPop150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
154 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 70% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-10, 27-40 and 42-44, and 8 more places -- 70.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 154 BPM
BEER NEVER BROKE MY HEART · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 2, 45, 53, 61, 69, 77 and 4 more.

LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54
LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

119 bars across 9 sections: 74 keep time, 10 are fills, 28 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 112-119.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART A
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCDAS8S7+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Beer Never Broke My Heart?

154 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 Beer Never Broke My Heart hard to play on drums?

37 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 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Beer Never Broke My Heart?

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 2, 45, 53, 61, 69, 77 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED
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