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Shape Of My Heart · Backstreet Boys

EXERCISE 1 OF 11
Groove C -- Outro 2 (a two-bar phrase)
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OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCBS2S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shape Of My Heart on drums

89 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 3:43 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-87 and kick and crashes through bars 88-89.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 21-28, 30-44 and 46-52, and 4 more places -- 68.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    21               22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-o-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-o-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---------|x-x---x---------|
Shape Of My Heart -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 29.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 9 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Shape Of My Heart?

96 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 Shape Of My Heart hard to play on drums?

45 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 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.

How many fills are in Shape Of My Heart?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 29.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED