Piece Of My Heart · Erma Franklin

101 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:42 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Funk / SoulJazz / Blues150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
2:42
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-28, 31-36 and 55-60, and 2 more places -- 48.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 150 BPM
PIECE OF MY HEART · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 46, 68 and 86.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 86 · LANDS ON BAR 87
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 9 sections: 79 keep time, 3 are fills and 11 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-28.

PART A
CHORUS
PART D
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBDAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Piece Of My Heart?

150 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?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 2:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Piece Of My Heart?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 46, 68 and 86.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
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