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Heartbeat · STOMACH BOOK

EXERCISE 1 OF 62
Groove G -- Part G
0 / 199 BARS COVERED
0 / 62 PASSED · 33 BARS LIT
PART G
PART H
PART M
PART G
BREAK 4
PART G
PART AB
BREAK 7
PART G
OUTRO 2
16 groovesCGABS22H+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 4
JOIN · 14
LINK · 4
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Heartbeat on drums

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.

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
199
LENGTH
6:38
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-10, hi-hat through bars 11-52, toms through bars 53-56, snare through bars 57-58 and hi-hat through bars 59-72, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xx--xx--xx--xx--|
Heartbeat -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- G, AB -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 14-25 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part H -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Bars 23-58 -- 7 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  8. Bars 46-70 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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?

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