Piece of My Heart · Janis Joplin

85 bars of 4/4 at a walking 81 BPM, 4:10 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
81 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 9-13 and 23, and 4 more places -- 17.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 81 BPM
PIECE OF MY HEART · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 14, 20, 24 and 20 more.

LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

85 bars across 9 sections: 44 keep time, 26 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 29-35.

PART C
PART F
PART A
CHORUS
PART F
PART A
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesKFACFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Piece of My Heart?

81 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Piece of My Heart?

18 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 14, 20, 24 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED
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