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My Heart · Paramore

EXERCISE 28 OF 45
Join Chorus 2 to Part W (bars 104-106)
137 / 169 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART W
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play My Heart on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
49/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-14, ride through bars 15-19, silence through bars 20-23, ride through bars 24-25, toms through bars 26-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-72, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    1            2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x---x---x---|x---x---x---|
SD |------------|x-----x-----|
BD |x-----x---x-|----------x-|
My Heart -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- A, AE -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part I and Part C -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 36-81 -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part W -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Bars 104-137 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part W and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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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