Heartbreak Warfare · John Mayer

103 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 4:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Jazz / BluesPop90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 98% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-74 and 80-103 -- 97.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 97 BPM
HEARTBREAK WARFARE · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 75.

LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 75 · LANDS ON BAR 76
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars across 4 sections: 94 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-74.

CHORUS
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Heartbreak Warfare?

97 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 Heartbreak Warfare hard to play on drums?

48 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Heartbreak Warfare?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 75.

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