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Heartbeat · Childish Gambino

EXERCISE 1 OF 13
Groove B -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART C
CHORUS 4
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBCS1AS8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Heartbeat on drums

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

27 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
27/100

silence through bars 1-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-24, snare through bars 25-75, kick and crashes through bars 76-77, snare through bars 78-96 and kick and crashes through bars 97-104, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Heartbeat -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- B, C -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 45-127 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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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