Heartbreaker · Grand Funk Railroad

297 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 140 BPM, 6:45 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
297
LENGTH
6:45
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-16, and 11 more places -- 41.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
HEARTBREAKER · BAR 53
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 3, 4, 12, 20, 44, 68 and 11 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 3-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

297 bars across 21 sections: 116 keep time, 17 are fills, 128 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 248-277.

PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART Q
PART S
PART V
17 groovesMQIVK+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Heartbreaker?

140 BPM, in 3/4, 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?

44 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

297 bars, about 6:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 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 Heartbreaker?

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 3, 4, 12, 20, 44, 68 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 297 BARS ANALYSED
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