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Piece of My Heart · Janis Joplin

EXERCISE 31 OF 58
Chorus into Part F with the record (bars 24-31)
65 / 85 BARS COVERED
0 / 58 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART F
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Piece of My Heart on drums

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.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
81 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
68/100

ride through bars 1-26, toms through bars 27-28, ride through bars 29-48, toms through bars 49-50, ride through bars 51-72 and toms through bars 73-74, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    9
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
RD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x---------x-x---x---------x-|
Piece of My Heart -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- F, K -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 2-15 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-15 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part A -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 24-57 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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