Stereo Hearts · Gym Class Heroes ft. Adam Levine

79 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Hip Hop / ReggaePop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-14, 16-21 and 35-36, and 2 more places -- 34.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 90 BPM
STEREO HEARTS · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 66.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

79 bars across 8 sections: 56 keep time, 1 is a fill, 2 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 32-47.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBEJS1GFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stereo Hearts?

90 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 Stereo Hearts hard to play on drums?

43 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 29 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 Stereo Hearts?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 66.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED
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