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Heartache tonight (remastered) · Eagles

EXERCISE 17 OF 36
Groove K
108 / 123 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, PART I
CHORUS
PART F
PART D
PART F
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
OUTRO
6 groovesBDIFC+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Heartache tonight (remastered) on drums

123 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 4:21 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
60/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, snare through bars 2-12, hi-hat through bars 13-72, snare through bars 73-76, hi-hat through bars 77-80 and snare through bars 81-92, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-16 and 73-91 -- 27.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    5
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--------x--x-----------|
Heartache tonight (remastered) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 69, 71, 117, 119, 122 and 123.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- B, D -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Bars 20-29 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Bars 65-76 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 89-110 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Heartache tonight (remastered)?

113 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 Heartache tonight (remastered) hard to play on drums?

60 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 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 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 Heartache tonight (remastered)?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 69, 71, 117, 119, 122 and 123.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED