Hearts Breaking Even · Bon Jovi

90 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 96 BPM, 5:29 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
5:29
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 18-20, and 3 more places -- 27.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 96 BPM
HEARTS BREAKING EVEN · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 3, 11, 13, 16, 17 and 11 more.

LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 10 sections: 34 keep time, 17 are fills, 1 is a stop and 28 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-26.

PART B
PART F
PART H
PART B
PART F
PART H
PART B
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesS10BHFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hearts Breaking Even?

96 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Hearts Breaking Even hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 5:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 4 sittings, about 30 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 Hearts Breaking Even?

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 3, 11, 13, 16, 17 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED
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