Closest Thing to Heaven · Tears for Fears

67 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:21 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 78% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17 and 21-35, and 6 more places -- 78.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 80 BPM
CLOSEST THING TO HEAVEN · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 8, 16, 18, 41 and 55.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

67 bars across 2 sections: 55 keep time, 5 are fills and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-40.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Closest Thing to Heaven?

80 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 Closest Thing to Heaven hard to play on drums?

41 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Closest Thing to Heaven?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 8, 16, 18, 41 and 55.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 67 BARS ANALYSED
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