The Beating Heart · Rohan Sawhney

185 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 120 BPM, 4:41 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
4:41
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-21, 25-26 and 30-31, and 8 more places -- 12.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
THE BEATING HEART · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 15, 16, 17, 90, 91, 92 and 10 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 15-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 90-93 · LANDS ON BAR 94 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 97 · LANDS ON BAR 98 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 101 · LANDS ON BAR 102 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

190 bars across 16 sections: 84 keep time, 16 are fills, 64 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 39-44.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 3
PART AF
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
8 groovesOAFQAAA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Beating Heart?

120 BPM, in 3/4, 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 The Beating Heart hard to play on drums?

56 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

185 bars, about 4:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 The Beating Heart?

5 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 15, 16, 17, 90, 91, 92 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 185 BARS ANALYSED
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