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The Beating Heart · Rohan Sawhney

The Beating Heart · Rohan Sawhney
EXERCISE 3 OF 35
Fill at bar 97, 105, 113 and 181 (a small one)
40 / 190 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AF, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Beating Heart on drums

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.

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
4:41
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bars 1-39, kick and crashes through bars 40-43, hi-hat through bars 44-49, kick and crashes through bars 50-53, hi-hat through bars 54-59 and snare through bars 60-63, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    20
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |x---x---x---|
SD |--x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---|
The Beating Heart -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- N, AF -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Bars 20-86 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 82-97 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part AF -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 116-184 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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