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Heart in Hand · Opeth

EXERCISE 6 OF 83
4-bar fill at bar 142
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0 / 83 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART BE
PART H
PART W
PART AH
PART U
PART AH
PART BE
PART S10
CHORUS 2
11 groovesBNAHHWBE+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 20
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 7
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Heart in Hand on drums

245 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 8:13 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
245
LENGTH
8:13
DIFFICULTY
71/100

hi-hat through bars 1-165, silence through bars 166-188 and hi-hat through bars 189-245.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 30-31, 33-34 and 36-37, and 13 more places -- 14.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    30                               31
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4...
CC |x-------------------------------|----------------------------|
HH |----x-------x-------x-------x---|----x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--x-----x-x-------------x-----x-|--x-----x-x-------------x---|
BD |x-----x-------x---x-x-----------|x-----x-------x---x-x-------|
Heart in Hand -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 10, 12, 28, 45, 46, 72 and 25 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 66 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 -- U -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BN, BE -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-146 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part H -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part H -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part H -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  8. Through Part A and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 17 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Heart in Hand?

120 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 Heart in Hand hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

245 bars, about 8:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 25 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Heart in Hand?

16 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 10, 12, 28, 45, 46, 72 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 245 BARS ANALYSED