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Bringin' On The Heartbreak · Def Leppard

EXERCISE 16 OF 21
Run B1 · Part B (bars 37-42)
77 / 86 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
CHORUS
PART G
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCGBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bringin' On The Heartbreak on drums

86 bars of 4/4 at a walking 77 BPM, 4:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
77 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
41/100

hi-hat through bars 2-23, snare through bars 24-35, hi-hat through bars 36-49, snare through bars 50-62, hi-hat through bars 63-68 and snare through bars 69-86.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-34, 54-60 and 73-84 -- 31% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    28
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
HF |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Bringin' On The Heartbreak -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 21, 27, 47, 53, 68 and 72.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- G, C -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 2-40 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 37-76 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Bringin' On The Heartbreak?

77 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 Bringin' On The Heartbreak hard to play on drums?

41 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Bringin' On The Heartbreak?

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 21, 27, 47, 53, 68 and 72.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED