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How Can You Mend a Broken Heart · Al Green

EXERCISE 31 OF 33
Run K1 · Outro (bars 91-104)
103 / 111 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
PART L
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesALKS6T+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play How Can You Mend a Broken Heart on drums

111 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 75 BPM, 6:22 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
6:22
DIFFICULTY
33/100

hi-hat through bars 1-48, ride through bars 49-57, hi-hat through bars 58-59, ride through bars 60-77, hi-hat through bars 78-79 and ride through bars 80-105, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-18 and 22-24, and 3 more places -- 27.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x---------x-x---------x-|
How Can You Mend a Broken Heart -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 74, 75, 79, 83, 93 and 97.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- A, K -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 44-84 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 49-91 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?

75 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is How Can You Mend a Broken Heart hard to play on drums?

33 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 6:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 74, 75, 79, 83, 93 and 97.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED