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

Give Your Heart A Break (Rock Version) · Demi Lovato, robbietheused
EXERCISE 10 OF 46
Groove B
53 / 97 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Give Your Heart A Break (Rock Version) on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-7, toms through bars 8-15, snare through bars 16-27, toms through bars 28-36, hi-hat through bars 37-40 and snare through bars 41-97.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x--x-x--x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
Give Your Heart A Break (Rock Version) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- F, M -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Bars 29-37 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 35-64 -- 9 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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