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Beer Never Broke My Heart · Luke Combs

EXERCISE 29 OF 31
Play the whole song with the record
114 / 119 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 119 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
BREAK
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART A
BREAK 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCDAS8S7+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Beer Never Broke My Heart on drums

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

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
154 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
37/100

hi-hat through bars 3-77, kick and crashes through bars 78-84, silence through bars 85-88 and hi-hat through bars 89-119.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Beer Never Broke My Heart -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- C -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Bars 7-46 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 and Part A -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 27-92 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
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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