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Heartbreaker · Led Zeppelin

EXERCISE 1 OF 27
Groove O -- Outro
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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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Heartbreaker on drums

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

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

TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
6:08
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-19, snare through bars 20-21, hi-hat through bars 22-37, snare through bars 38-39 and ride through bars 40-52, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    72
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
RD |x-----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

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- O, C -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 47-78 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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