Heartbeat · STOMACH BOOK

199 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 6:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
199
LENGTH
6:38
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-21, 23-24 and 66-69, and 4 more places -- 20.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
HEARTBEAT · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 9, 12, 16, 55, 56, 57 and 17 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 55-57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

199 bars across 26 sections: 118 keep time, 23 are fills and 38 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-39.

PART H
PART M
PART AB
BREAK 7
16 groovesCGABS22H+11Fill 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?

62 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 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

199 bars, about 6:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Heartbeat?

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 9, 12, 16, 55, 56, 57 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 199 BARS ANALYSED
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