My Heart Is Broken · Evanescence

90 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 4:14 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieMetalUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-9, 11-13 and 34-35, and 2 more places -- 14.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 85 BPM
MY HEART IS BROKEN · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 6, 14, 15, 18, 22, 26 and 19 more.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 85 BPM
BARS 14-15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 15 sections: 48 keep time, 25 are fills and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-13.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART G
CHORUS
PART C
PART G
PART I
PART Y
OUTRO 2
11 groovesKCIGS1+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is My Heart Is Broken?

85 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 My Heart Is Broken hard to play on drums?

56 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 My Heart Is Broken?

11 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 6, 14, 15, 18, 22, 26 and 19 more.

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