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Hollowed Heart · Make Them Suffer

EXERCISE 19 OF 83
Join Part B to Part G (bars 9-11)
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0 / 83 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART G
PART B
PART G
PART M
PART O
PART AB
PART AE
PART E
CHORUS
OUTRO
BREAK 2
16 groovesAROYGS19+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 4
JOIN · 16
LINK · 3
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hollowed Heart on drums

150 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:36 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-12, ride through bars 13-16, snare through bars 17-34, toms through bars 35-36, snare through bars 37-65 and hi-hat through bars 66-68, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37, 39 and 41, and 13 more places -- 13.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    39
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |--x-x-x---x-x---|
Hollowed Heart -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 6, 8, 10, 12, 16, 17 and 33 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 66 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 -- U, V -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part G -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part M and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 20-35 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Hollowed Heart?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Hollowed Heart hard to play on drums?

50 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 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 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 Hollowed Heart?

16 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 6, 8, 10, 12, 16, 17 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 150 BARS ANALYSED