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My Heart Will Go On · Dragonforce

EXERCISE 8 OF 20
Join Chorus to Part C (bars 62-64)
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0 / 20 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART C
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play My Heart Will Go On on drums

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.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
70/100

silence through bars 1-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32, silence through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-46, snare through bars 47-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-72, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    42
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|
My Heart Will Go On -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- F -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  4. Bars 25-46 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 60-75 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 76-125 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED