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Owner Of A Lonely Heart · Yes

EXERCISE 15 OF 15
Play the whole song with the record
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PART S1
CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
PART G
BREAK 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesEDS1S9G+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Owner Of A Lonely Heart on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
4:31
DIFFICULTY
51/100

toms through bar 1, silence through bars 2-7, hi-hat through bars 8-36, silence through bars 37-38, hi-hat through bars 39-75 and snare through bars 76-79, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |------x-x-------|
Owner Of A Lonely 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 -- E, D -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-78 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 77-96 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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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