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Heal Me · Harakiri For The Sky

EXERCISE 1 OF 80
Groove B -- Part B
0 / 216 BARS COVERED
0 / 80 PASSED · 31 BARS LIT
PART S2
PART B
PART C
PART B
PART C
PART R
PART W
CHORUS
PART AL
PART W
PART AW
10 groovesACWBALC+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 10
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Heal Me on drums

216 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 7:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
216
LENGTH
7:31
DIFFICULTY
75/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-24, hi-hat through bars 25-40, snare through bars 41-55, toms through bars 56-64 and ride through bars 65-78, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13 and 15, and 14 more places -- 14.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    11
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x---------------------------x---|
Heal Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 16, 24, 48, 56, 57, 58 and 41 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 62 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, AC -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part R -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part C and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part C and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Heal Me?

115 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 Heal Me hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

216 bars, about 7:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 19 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Heal Me?

17 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 16, 24, 48, 56, 57, 58 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 216 BARS ANALYSED