Piece Of My Heart · Best Interest

25 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 1:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunk90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
25
LENGTH
1:00
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8 -- 28% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 100 BPM
PIECE OF MY HEART · BAR 2
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 1, 9, 21 and 25.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

25 bars across 2 sections: 19 keep time and 4 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-8.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Piece Of My Heart?

100 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 Piece Of My 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?

25 bars, about 1:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Piece Of My Heart?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 1, 9, 21 and 25.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 25 BARS ANALYSED
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