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Heart Skips A Beat · Olly Murs

Heart Skips A Beat · Olly Murs
EXERCISE 3 OF 13
Groove D -- Part D
48 / 92 BARS COVERED
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCDAS3S5+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Heart Skips A Beat on drums

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

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
51/100

snare through bar 1, silence through bars 2-3, hi-hat through bars 4-74, snare through bars 75-76 and hi-hat through bars 77-92.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-xxxxx-x-xx|
SD |----x--xxxx-x---|
BD |x------xx-------|
Heart Skips A Beat -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 21-89 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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