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Heartache · Undertale

EXERCISE 4 OF 10
Join Chorus to Break 2 (bars 33-35)
117 / 144 BARS COVERED
0 / 10 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, BREAK 2
CHORUS
BREAK 2
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
8 groovesDBS1S11S5+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Heartache on drums

144 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 124 BPM, 3:36 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 the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-34, silence through bars 35-38, hi-hat through bars 39-72 and silence through bars 73-76, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |---x----x-x-|
BD |x----x------|
Heartache -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 8 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 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 6 minutes.
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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