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Heartless · Converge

EXERCISE 1 OF 46
Groove F -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Heartless on drums

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.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
217 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
2:17
DIFFICULTY
66/100

toms through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-10, snare through bars 11-12, hi-hat through bars 13-28, toms through bars 29-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-52, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o---o---o---o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x----x--x----x--|
Heartless -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- F -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G, J -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-73 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 4-13 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 13-34 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 34-61 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED