Heartbreaker · Pat Benatar

135 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 3:27 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop150 BPM and up
TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 96-98, 100-102 and 104-106, and 5 more places -- 18.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 156 BPM
HEARTBREAKER · BAR 96
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 37, 45, 49 and 18 more.

LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

135 bars across 11 sections: 85 keep time, 24 are fills, 9 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 116-126.

PART A
PART D
PART L
PART D
PART L
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesAAADLS10+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Heartbreaker?

156 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Heartbreaker hard to play on drums?

63 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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?

11 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 37, 45, 49 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED
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