Heartbreaker · Led Zeppelin

128 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 6:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
6:08
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 72-73, 75 and 77, and 14 more places -- 22.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 96 BPM
HEARTBREAKER · BAR 72
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 20, 38, 47 and 48.

LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BARS 47-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 10 sections: 74 keep time, 4 are fills, 7 are stops and 38 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 71-101.

PART C
PART D
PART C
PART D
PART H
BREAK
OUTRO
BREAK 2
8 groovesODS10S8C+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Heartbreaker?

96 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?

55 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 6:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Heartbreaker?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 20, 38, 47 and 48.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED
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