My Heart Will Go On · Dragonforce

156 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-45, 49-54 and 57-62, and 9 more places -- 53.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
MY HEART WILL GO ON · BAR 42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 123 and 124.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 123-124 · LANDS ON BAR 125 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

156 bars across 10 sections: 109 keep time, 2 are fills, 6 are stops and 33 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 81-118.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
7 groovesFS1CHD+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is My Heart Will Go On?

140 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 Will Go On hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 4:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 7 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Will Go On?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 123 and 124.

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