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Hearts Breaking Even · Bon Jovi

EXERCISE 1 OF 26
Groove B -- Part B
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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
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hearts Breaking Even on drums

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.

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
5:29
DIFFICULTY
39/100

toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-10, hi-hat through bars 11-17, ride through bars 18-32, hi-hat through bars 33-39 and ride through bars 40-52, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
CC |x-----x-----------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x---x-----x-x---x-----x-|
Hearts Breaking Even -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- B, F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-21 -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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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