Heartache · Undertale

144 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 124 BPM, 3:36 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 91% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-18, 21-34 and 39-56, and 5 more places -- 91% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 124 BPM
HEARTACHE · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 144.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 144
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

144 bars across 12 sections: 121 keep time, 1 is a fill and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 39-57.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
8 groovesDBS1S11S5+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Heartache?

124 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Heartache hard to play on drums?

51 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?

144 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 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 Heartache?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 144.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED
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