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EXERCISE 17 OF 55
Groove I
69 / 135 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Heartbreaker on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
63/100

toms through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-23, toms through bars 24-25, hi-hat through bars 26-33, toms through bars 34-37 and hi-hat through bars 38-52, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    96
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |----x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Heartbreaker -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- AA -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D, A -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part L -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 29-74 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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