Half Of My Heart · John Mayer

115 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:49 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 97% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-24, 26-53 and 55-82, and 1 more place -- 96.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
HALF OF MY HEART · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 1 and 83.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 83 · LANDS ON BAR 84
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars: 113 keep time and 2 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-82.

OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Half Of My Heart?

120 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 Half Of My Heart hard to play on drums?

48 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 3 sittings, about 17 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Half Of My Heart?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 1 and 83.

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