First Place · Heaven and The Sinners

155 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:45 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-15, 17-24 and 61-67, and 7 more places -- 43.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 165 BPM
FIRST PLACE · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 8, 16, 42, 50, 58, 68 and 8 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 78 · LANDS ON BAR 79

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

155 bars across 12 sections: 98 keep time, 14 are fills, 21 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 140-155.

PART A
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART S9
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCJYAS9+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is First Place?

165 BPM, in 4/4, 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 First Place hard to play on drums?

52 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in First Place?

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 8, 16, 42, 50, 58, 68 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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