Heartless · Converge

108 bars at 217 BPM -- fast, and 2:17 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
217 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
2:17
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 21-23, and 5 more places -- 21.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 217 BPM
HEARTLESS · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 7, 11, 12, 25, 26, 28 and 21 more.

LOOP · 217 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 217 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 217 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 217 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 10 sections: 40 keep time, 28 are fills, 13 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 37-48.

PART E
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFBS10JE+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Heartless?

217 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 Heartless hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 2:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 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 Heartless?

10 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 7, 11, 12, 25, 26, 28 and 21 more.

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