Just Take My Heart · Mr. Big

64 bars, 3:39, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick and nothing else.

RockPopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
29/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-7, 10 and 31-32, and 6 more places -- 26.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 70 BPM
JUST TAKE MY HEART · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 30 and 37.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

64 bars across 8 sections: 46 keep time, 2 are fills, 3 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-24.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART I
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBIJGD+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Just Take My Heart?

70 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Just Take My Heart hard to play on drums?

29 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

64 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Just Take My Heart?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 30 and 37.

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