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When Your Heart Stops Beating · +44

EXERCISE 12 OF 48
Groove E
81 / 129 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play When Your Heart Stops Beating on drums

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.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
74/100

hi-hat through bars 1-41, ride through bars 42-48, hi-hat through bars 49-72, ride through bars 73-80, toms through bars 81-92 and hi-hat through bars 93-112, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    33               34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |-xxx-xxx--o---o-|--o---o---o---o-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
HF |--------x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
When Your Heart Stops Beating -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- I -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 28-52 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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