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The Weighing Of The Heart · Alex Mayo

EXERCISE 15 OF 32
Join Part E to Part G (bars 39-41)
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0 / 32 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, PART G
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesAGKBE+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Weighing Of The Heart on drums

84 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
83/100

hi-hat through bars 1-23, ride through bars 24-40, hi-hat through bars 41-56 and ride through bars 57-84.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-51 and 53-55 -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    41
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |xxxxx-------xxxxx-------xxxxx---|
The Weighing Of The Heart -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 36, 56 and 76.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- G -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 21-33 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 10 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part G -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Weighing Of The Heart?

100 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 Weighing Of The Heart hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 12 sittings, about 22 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 Weighing Of The Heart?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 36, 56 and 76.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED