Open Your Heart · Crush 40

175 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 4:28 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
175
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 15 more places -- 18.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 158 BPM
OPEN YOUR HEART · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 12, 14, 22, 30, 37, 38 and 39 more.

LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

175 bars across 20 sections: 100 keep time, 46 are fills, 4 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-11.

CHORUS
PART J
PART M
PART Q
PART AJ
PART M
CHORUS 4
15 groovesEMQACAJ+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Open Your Heart?

158 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Open Your Heart hard to play on drums?

61 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

175 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 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 Open Your Heart?

20 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 12, 14, 22, 30, 37, 38 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 175 BARS ANALYSED
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