EVANESCENCE · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Wide Open Heart (Hallted)

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-18, 26-27 and 29-30, and 8 more places -- 61.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
25/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 185 BPM
WIDE OPEN HEART (HALLTED) · BAR 27

It is played on hi-hat, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 21 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

The whole song is 25 out of 100, so the beat is most of what the song asks for. Get it clean and the rest follows.

How to get it under your hands

The room opens this beat on its simplest reduction, at 139 BPM, and adds the notes back a rung at a time -- 3 of them. Nothing is a matter of opinion: each rung has a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next one.

  1. Kick and snare, whole. The feet and the snare exactly as written, hi-hat pulled back to quarter notes. This is the part to know by heart.
  2. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 139, 162 and 185 BPM, and the gate at each one is 8 loops in a row with no wrong note and no wobble in the time.

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Questions

What drum beat does Wide Open Heart (Hallted) use?

A one-bar groove on hi-hat, snare and kick, in 6/4 at 185 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 61.5% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 13-18, 26-27, 29-30 and 41-45, and 7 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 7 times over the song.

Is the beat in Wide Open Heart (Hallted) hard?

21 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 25 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED