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dark heaven · president

EXERCISE 11 OF 61
Groove H -- Part H
49 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
PART B
PART H
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play dark heaven on drums

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

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-22, snare through bars 23-37 and toms through bars 38-46, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    31
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-------x-----------x-------x---|
dark heaven -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- J -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D (a two-bar phrase) -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 16-23 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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