The Deepest Of All Hearts · My Dying Bride

270 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 9:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
270
LENGTH
9:00
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 97, 99 and 102-106, and 11 more places -- 17.8% 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 DEEPEST OF ALL HEARTS · BAR 97
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

23 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 29, 32, 33, 45, 46, 51 and 40 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 32-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 45-46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 51-53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

270 bars across 25 sections: 163 keep time, 46 are fills, 7 are stops and 29 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 170-183.

COUNT-IN
PART S4
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART BF
PART Z
OUTRO
14 groovesAIMZAHBF+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Deepest Of All Hearts?

120 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 The Deepest Of All Hearts hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

270 bars, about 9:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 90 exercises over 32 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Deepest Of All Hearts?

23 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 29, 32, 33, 45, 46, 51 and 40 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 270 BARS ANALYSED
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