Total Eclipse Of The Heart · Bonnie Tyler

204 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 6:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopRock120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
204
LENGTH
6:05
DIFFICULTY
29/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-37, 76 and 80, and 9 more places -- 24.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 134 BPM
TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE HEART · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 26, 38, 43, 48, 51, 52 and 16 more.

LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

204 bars across 12 sections: 135 keep time, 22 are fills, 22 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 161-204.

CHORUS
PART E
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART H
OUTRO
7 groovesAEHS9S5+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Total Eclipse Of The Heart?

134 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 Total Eclipse Of The Heart hard to play on drums?

29 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

204 bars, about 6:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 7 sittings, about 29 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 Total Eclipse Of The Heart?

15 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 26, 38, 43, 48, 51, 52 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 204 BARS ANALYSED
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