Heartache Tonight · The Eagles

120 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 4:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPop90 to 119 BPMShuffle / tripletBeginner
TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-29, 31-38 and 40, and 12 more places -- 49.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 113 BPM
HEARTACHE TONIGHT · BAR 24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 22, 39, 60, 64, 69, 71 and 4 more.

LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 4 sections: 71 keep time, 10 are fills and 36 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-21.

PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesDBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Heartache Tonight?

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 hard to play on drums?

49 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 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 Heartache Tonight?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 22, 39, 60, 64, 69, 71 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED
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