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Open Your Heart · Crush 40

EXERCISE 1 OF 91
Groove E -- Chorus
0 / 175 BARS COVERED
0 / 91 PASSED · 32 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART J
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART Q
CHORUS 3
PART AJ
PART M
CHORUS 4
PART D
PART I
15 groovesEMQACAJ+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 2
JOIN · 16
LINK · 9
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Open Your Heart on drums

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.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
175
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-30, ride through bars 31-47, hi-hat through bars 48-77, ride through bars 78-86 and hi-hat through bars 87-102, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Open Your Heart -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 70 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 -- E, M -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through the Break and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 15-31 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Bars 37-81 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Bars 45-87 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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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