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Heartbreaker · Grand Funk Railroad

EXERCISE 1 OF 65
Groove D -- Part D
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PART S2
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 8
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Heartbreaker on drums

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.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
297
LENGTH
6:45
DIFFICULTY
44/100

toms through bars 3-4, snare through bars 5-16, toms through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-52, snare through bars 53-80 and toms through bars 81-84, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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 -- D, I -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 15-22 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part I and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 49-135 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part K -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 145-216 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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