Half A Heart · One Direction

58 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 2:59 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
58
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21, 24-25 and 29, and 5 more places -- 19.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 78 BPM
HALF A HEART · BAR 31
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 11, 20 and 30.

LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

58 bars across 10 sections: 30 keep time, 3 are fills, 4 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 46-53.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART A
PART G
CHORUS
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesHKS1CA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Half A Heart?

78 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Half A Heart hard to play on drums?

63 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 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

58 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Half A Heart?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 11, 20 and 30.

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