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Listen To Your Heart · Roxette

EXERCISE 6 OF 19
Join Part A to Part C (bars 10-12)
111 / 135 BARS COVERED
0 / 19 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART C
PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
OUTRO
6 groovesGCAS1I+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Listen To Your Heart on drums

135 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 4:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
4:42
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-7, ride through bars 8-10, hi-hat through bars 11-21, snare through bars 22-102, hi-hat through bars 103-113 and snare through bars 114-135.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 22-23, 26 and 30-31, and 23 more places -- 37.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    22                       23
    1.....2.....3.....4..... 1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|------------------------|
SD |--------x---------------|x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----------x-------x---|--------x-----------x---|
HF |x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Listen To Your Heart -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- G, J -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Listen To Your Heart?

115 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 hard to play on drums?

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 4:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED