When Your Heart Stops Beating · +44

129 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:02 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 33-40, 65-72 and 105-112 -- 18.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
WHEN YOUR HEART STOPS BEATING · BARS 33-34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 32, 44 and 14 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 12 sections: 90 keep time, 20 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 117-127.

CHORUS
PART D
PART I
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART L
PART R
PART U
VERSE
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesALIRU+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is When Your Heart Stops Beating?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is When Your Heart Stops Beating hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 3:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in When Your Heart Stops Beating?

7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 32, 44 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED
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