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Heartless · HIM

EXERCISE 8 OF 23
Groove E -- Part E
78 / 113 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Heartless on drums

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

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

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
53/100

hi-hat through bars 2-81, snare through bars 82-89, silence through bars 90-97 and hi-hat through bars 98-113.

The beat

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.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-------x---x-|
Heartless -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- C, B -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 26-82 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 78-113 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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