Straight for the Heart · TOTO

109 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 4:09 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 89% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-25, 27-49 and 51-52, and 6 more places -- 89% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 105 BPM
STRAIGHT FOR THE HEART · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 26, 50, 74, 82, 90, 98 and 1 more.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 109
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 3 sections: 100 keep time and 7 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-25.

CHORUS
OUTRO 2
2 groovesADFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Straight for the Heart?

105 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 Straight for the Heart hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 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 Straight for the Heart?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 26, 50, 74, 82, 90, 98 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED
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