The Heart Of The Matter · Don Henley

116 bars of 4/4 at a walking 89 BPM, 5:13 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
89 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
5:13
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9 and 11, and 31 more places -- 58.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 89 BPM
THE HEART OF THE MATTER · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 4, 36, 52, 56, 68, 78 and 3 more.

LOOP · 89 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 89 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 89 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 89 BPM
BAR 78 · LANDS ON BAR 79

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 5 sections: 98 keep time, 9 are fills, 1 is a stop and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-35.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCFS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Heart Of The Matter?

89 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 The Heart Of The Matter hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 5:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Heart Of The Matter?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 4, 36, 52, 56, 68, 78 and 3 more.

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