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No Other Heart · Mac Demarco

EXERCISE 6 OF 15
Run C1 · Part C (bars 1-4)
64 / 66 BARS COVERED
0 / 15 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDECFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play No Other Heart on drums

66 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 2:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
2:49
DIFFICULTY
62/100

hi-hat through bars 1-24, ride through bars 25-30, hi-hat through bars 31-48, ride through bars 49-54, hi-hat through bars 55-56 and ride through bars 57-62, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 9-12 and 17-23, and 3 more places -- 48.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-----gg--------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---x-----------|
No Other Heart -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- D, E -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-28 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is No Other Heart?

94 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 No Other Heart hard to play on drums?

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 2:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 66 BARS ANALYSED