My Heart · Paramore

169 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 135 BPM, 3:45 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunk120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-7, 9-13 and 41-47, and 12 more places -- 35.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 135 BPM
MY HEART · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 32, 38, 40, 72, 76, 78 and 11 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 78-80 · LANDS ON BAR 81 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

169 bars across 9 sections: 68 keep time, 17 are fills, 69 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 58-69.

CHORUS
PART I
PART C
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesGWCAEA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is My Heart?

135 BPM, in 3/4, 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 hard to play on drums?

49 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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?

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 32, 38, 40, 72, 76, 78 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED
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