Unchain My Heart · Joe Cocker

98 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:16 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Jazz / BluesPop120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
33/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 73% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-23, 28-34 and 36-39, and 9 more places -- 73.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
UNCHAIN MY HEART · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 26, 40, 42, 64, 66 and 92.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 2 sections: 84 keep time, 6 are fills and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 67-91.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Unchain My Heart?

120 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 Unchain My Heart hard to play on drums?

33 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Unchain My Heart?

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 26, 40, 42, 64, 66 and 92.

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