Heartless · HIM

113 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 3:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 7, and 25 more places -- 39% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 118 BPM
HEARTLESS · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 97 and 113.

LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 97 · LANDS ON BAR 98
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 113
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 8 sections: 97 keep time, 2 are fills and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-62.

CHORUS
PART D
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART F
BREAK
OUTRO
6 groovesCEDFS7+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Heartless?

118 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 Heartless hard to play on drums?

53 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Heartless?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 97 and 113.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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