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For Me This Is Heaven · Jimmy Eat World

EXERCISE 26 OF 33
Join Part J to Outro (bars 111-113)
130 / 153 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, OUTRO
PART A
CHORUS
PART D
PART S4
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBDNAJ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play For Me This Is Heaven on drums

153 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 121 BPM, 3:48 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
121 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
60/100

hi-hat through bars 1-40, snare through bars 41-57, silence through bars 58-64, hi-hat through bars 65-80, snare through bars 81-96 and hi-hat through bars 97-136, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 25-31 and 33-39, and 2 more places -- 24% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |--o---o---o-|
SD |-g-g-gg-x---|
BD |----x-----x-|
HF |x---x---x---|
For Me This Is Heaven -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 24, 40, 44, 48, 72, 80 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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, D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-118 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 46-98 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 109-138 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is For Me This Is Heaven?

121 BPM, in 3/4, 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 For Me This Is Heaven hard to play on drums?

60 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 For Me This Is Heaven?

3 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 24, 40, 44, 48, 72, 80 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED