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Wide Open Heart (Hallted) · Evanescence

EXERCISE 1 OF 16
Groove B -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
BREAK
6 groovesBS8S1CF+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wide Open Heart (Hallted) on drums

105 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 185 BPM, 3:24 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

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

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, ride through bars 21-25, hi-hat through bars 26-30, toms through bars 31-36 and silence through bars 37-40, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-------------------x---|
Wide Open Heart (Hallted) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 24, 28 and 68.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- B -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 21-31 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 29-70 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Wide Open Heart (Hallted)?

185 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Wide Open Heart (Hallted) hard to play on drums?

25 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Wide Open Heart (Hallted)?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 24, 28 and 68.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED