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LISTEN TO YOUR HEART - Roxette - · Sebastian Lindqvist

LISTEN TO YOUR HEART - Roxette - · Sebastian Lindqvist
EXERCISE 8 OF 36
Groove C
63 / 93 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFDS11KA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play LISTEN TO YOUR HEART - Roxette - on drums

93 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 4:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-6, kick and crashes through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-21, snare through bars 22-28 and hi-hat through bars 29-48, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21 and 25-27, and 9 more places -- 42% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|
LISTEN TO YOUR HEART - Roxette - -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 16, 20, 22, 23, 28, 36 and 13 more.

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 -- F, D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 26-48 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 47-69 -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Bars 73-89 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is LISTEN TO YOUR HEART - Roxette -?

87 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 YOUR HEART - Roxette - hard to play on drums?

47 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 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 LISTEN TO YOUR HEART - Roxette -?

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 16, 20, 22, 23, 28, 36 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED