Edge Of A Broken Heart · Vixen

142 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 4:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-17, 19-33 and 47-61, and 1 more place -- 43.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 126 BPM
EDGE OF A BROKEN HEART · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 34, 38, 42, 46, 62, 66 and 9 more.

LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47
LOOP · 126 BPM
BARS 77-78 · LANDS ON BAR 79 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

142 bars across 10 sections: 82 keep time, 15 are fills, 32 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 72-76.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCFLS1B+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Edge Of A Broken Heart?

126 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 Edge Of A Broken Heart hard to play on drums?

50 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?

142 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 23 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 Edge Of A Broken Heart?

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 34, 38, 42, 46, 62, 66 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED
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