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Listen To Her Heart · Tom Petty

EXERCISE 9 OF 21
Fill at bar 56 (a small one)
64 / 93 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesFRPFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Listen To Her Heart on drums

93 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 2:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
51/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-49, hi-hat through bars 50-59, ride through bars 60-83 and hi-hat through bars 84-93.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-24, 26 and 28, and 11 more places -- 49.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Listen To Her Heart -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 50, 56 and 59.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- F -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I, H -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Listen To Her Heart?

125 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 Listen To Her Heart hard to play on drums?

51 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Listen To Her Heart?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 50, 56 and 59.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED