dark heaven · president

120 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31, 33 and 35, and 14 more places -- 15% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
DARK HEAVEN · BAR 31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 8, 26, 30, 32, 34, 38 and 23 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 14 sections: 64 keep time, 29 are fills, 6 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 52-58.

PART B
PART B
CHORUS
PART S
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART AG
PART AJ
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesJBAJSAG+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is dark heaven?

125 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 dark heaven hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 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 dark heaven?

14 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 8, 26, 30, 32, 34, 38 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED
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