"My Heart" · sleep theory

56 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 135 BPM, 2:29 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
56
LENGTH
2:29
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-10 -- 17.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
"MY HEART" · BAR 5
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 11, 12, 16, 20, 22, 23 and 3 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 22-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

56 bars across 7 sections: 18 keep time, 9 are fills, 1 is a stop and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-10.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART E
PART H
CHORUS
OUTRO
BREAK
7 groovesS7NBHE+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is "My Heart"?

135 BPM, in 6/4, 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?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 4 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

56 bars, about 2:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 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"?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 11, 12, 16, 20, 22, 23 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 56 BARS ANALYSED
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