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The Heart Of The Matter · Don Henley

EXERCISE 19 OF 22
Fill at bar 110 (a small one)
110 / 116 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCFS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Heart Of The Matter on drums

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.

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
89 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
5:13
DIFFICULTY
42/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-41, silence through bars 42-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-116.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
The Heart Of The Matter -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- C, F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 34-49 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED