Heart Of The Sunrise · Yes

370 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 10:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveRock120 to 149 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
370
LENGTH
10:22
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 6% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 246-248, 250-252 and 258-260, and 3 more places -- 6.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 146 BPM
HEART OF THE SUNRISE · BARS 246-247
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98 and 14 more.

LOOP · 146 BPM
BARS 93-99 · LANDS ON BAR 100 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 146 BPM
BARS 216-217 · LANDS ON BAR 218 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 146 BPM
BARS 328-330 · LANDS ON BAR 331 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 342 · LANDS ON BAR 343

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

370 bars across 42 sections: 230 keep time, 22 are fills, 4 are stops and 74 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 45-80.

CHORUS
PART AZ
PART S14
PART DD
PART S36
39 groovesADS14DDAZS36+34Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Heart Of The Sunrise?

146 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 Heart Of The Sunrise hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 83 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

370 bars, about 10:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 114 exercises over 37 sittings, about 26 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 Heart Of The Sunrise?

7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98 and 14 more.

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