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My Heart Is Broken · Evanescence

EXERCISE 9 OF 55
Groove B
38 / 90 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play My Heart Is Broken on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-15, snare through bars 16-30, hi-hat through bars 31-51, snare through bars 52-60 and toms through bars 61-64, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-o-|
SD |----x---------x-|
BD |x--x---xx--x-x--|
My Heart Is Broken -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- C, I -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 6-31 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 19-40 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 37-60 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and Part S -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED