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Heartache Tonight · The Eagles

EXERCISE 17 OF 22
Fill at bar 71 and 119 (a small one)
111 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesDBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Heartache Tonight on drums

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.

49 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
120
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
49/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, snare through bars 2-22, hi-hat through bars 23-71, snare through bars 72-92 and hi-hat through bars 93-120.

The beat

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.

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    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--------x--x-----------|
Heartache Tonight -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- D, B -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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