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Gates of Heaven · Absurd

EXERCISE 5 OF 16
Groove B -- Part B
63 / 89 BARS COVERED
0 / 16 PASSED · 19 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, CHORUS, OUTRO
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gates of Heaven on drums

89 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 3:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
49/100

hi-hat through bars 2-84 and kick and crashes through bars 85-89.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-6, 14 and 18-20, and 22 more places -- 40.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
Gates of Heaven -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 21 and 49.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- D, C -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 2-28 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Gates of Heaven?

107 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 Gates of Heaven hard to play on drums?

49 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Gates of Heaven?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 21 and 49.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED