Owner Of A Lonely Heart · Yes

138 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 4:31 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopRock120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
4:31
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 52% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 45 more places -- 51.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 122 BPM
OWNER OF A LONELY HEART · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

138 bars across 10 sections: 118 keep time, 1 is a stop and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 101-138.

PART S1
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO 2
7 groovesEDS1S9G+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Owner Of A Lonely Heart?

122 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 Owner Of A Lonely Heart hard to play on drums?

51 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 4:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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.

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