Heart Skips A Beat · Olly Murs

92 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 3:17 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-7, 9-15 and 19, and 11 more places -- 54% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 112 BPM
HEART SKIPS A BEAT · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 28, 57 and 80.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

92 bars across 10 sections: 80 keep time, 3 are fills and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 29-51.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART D
OUTRO
6 groovesCDAS3S5+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Heart Skips A Beat?

112 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 Heart Skips A Beat hard to play on drums?

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Heart Skips A Beat?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 28, 57 and 80.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED
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