Straight Through The Heart · Dio

104 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 5:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetalUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
5:04
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 18-20, and 5 more places -- 23.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 82 BPM
STRAIGHT THROUGH THE HEART · BARS 14-15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

23 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 17, 25, 26 and 24 more.

LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 7 sections: 58 keep time, 30 are fills and 9 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-16.

PART C
CHORUS
PART V
CHORUS 2
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesIVCNFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Straight Through The Heart?

82 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 Straight Through The Heart hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 5:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 13 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Straight Through The Heart?

23 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 17, 25, 26 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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