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Hearts On Fire · HammerFall

EXERCISE 15 OF 53
Groove J -- Part J
40 / 87 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
PART S2
PART J
CHORUS
PART G
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesLGJYS2+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hearts On Fire on drums

87 bars of 4/4 at a walking 91 BPM, 3:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
76/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, ride through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-39, ride through bars 40-43 and hi-hat through bars 44-58, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 21, 23-26 and 44, and 5 more places -- 15.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    23               24
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x--------------x|-------x--------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx-x----xx-x|-x--x----x--xx--|
Hearts On Fire -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14 and 29 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- L -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Bars 8-28 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 13-31 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Bars 39-51 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 49-55 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part U and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Hearts On Fire?

91 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 Hearts On Fire hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Hearts On Fire?

12 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED