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Unchain My Heart · Joe Cocker

EXERCISE 4 OF 11
Groove F
77 / 98 BARS COVERED
0 / 11 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Unchain My Heart on drums

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

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
33/100

silence through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-47 and hi-hat through bars 48-98.

The beat

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.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
HF |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Unchain My Heart -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 8 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED