Shape Of My Heart · Sting

187 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 4:34 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopRock150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
187
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
34/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 93% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-30, 33-46 and 49-62, and 5 more places -- 92.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 164 BPM
SHAPE OF MY HEART · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 187.

LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 187
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

187 bars across 4 sections: 159 keep time, 1 is a fill and 27 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 81-152.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
4 groovesBS1S3AFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Shape Of My Heart?

164 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Shape Of My Heart hard to play on drums?

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the speed of the hand keeping time the part that decides it. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

187 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 23 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 Shape Of My Heart?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 187.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 187 BARS ANALYSED
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