Closer To The Heart · Rush

80 bars, 4:15, at 74 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

RockProgressiveUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49, 51 and 63, and 7 more places -- 16.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 74 BPM
CLOSER TO THE HEART · BAR 49
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 26, 27, 31, 35, 39, 43 and 4 more.

LOOP · 74 BPM
BARS 26-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

80 bars across 9 sections: 46 keep time, 10 are fills, 1 is a stop and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 72-80.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART D
PART D
CHORUS
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesLSDS1S2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Closer To The Heart?

74 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Closer To The Heart hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Closer To The Heart?

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 26, 27, 31, 35, 39, 43 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED
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