Heartbeat · Childish Gambino

133 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:26 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Hip Hop / ReggaeElectronic120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
27/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 57% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-41, 49-56 and 73-81, and 7 more places -- 56.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
HEARTBEAT · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars across 12 sections: 114 keep time and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-41.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART C
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBCS1AS8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Heartbeat?

120 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Heartbeat hard to play on drums?

27 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED
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