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Edge Of A Broken Heart · Vixen

EXERCISE 4 OF 32
Fill at bar 101 (a small one)
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0 / 32 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCFLS1B+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Edge Of A Broken Heart on drums

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.

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-6, kick and crashes through bars 7-10, hi-hat through bars 11-34, ride through bars 35-42, hi-hat through bars 43-62 and ride through bars 63-70, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Edge Of A Broken Heart -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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, F -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 7-102 -- 6 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part J -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 41-47 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 71-107 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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