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Heartbreaker · Bad Suns

Heartbreaker · Bad Suns
EXERCISE 20 OF 26
Join Part E to Outro (bars 49-51)
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0 / 26 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART H
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCEHS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Heartbreaker on drums

75 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 3:25 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
60/100

hi-hat through bars 3-46, kick and crashes through bars 47-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-75.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-9 and 11-13, and 11 more places -- 51.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 2, 14, 34, 44, 45, 46 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 31-66 -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 27-45 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 47-75 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Heartbreaker?

88 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 Heartbreaker hard to play on drums?

60 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Heartbreaker?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 2, 14, 34, 44, 45, 46 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED