Give Your Heart A Break (Rock Version) · Demi Lovato, robbietheused

97 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:06 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-22 and 25-27, and 9 more places -- 41.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 125 BPM
GIVE YOUR HEART A BREAK (ROCK VERSION) · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 20, 23, 24, 36, 44, 48 and 17 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 8 sections: 57 keep time, 23 are fills, 2 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-15.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART K
PART M
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFRCS1K+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Give Your Heart A Break (Rock Version)?

125 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 Give Your Heart A Break (Rock Version) hard to play on drums?

49 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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 Give Your Heart A Break (Rock Version)?

12 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 20, 23, 24, 36, 44, 48 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →