Heat Above · Greta Van Fleet

158 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25, 27-29 and 44, and 12 more places -- 13.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
HEAT ABOVE · BAR 58
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 19, 20, 21, 26, 33, 36 and 25 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 19-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 92 · LANDS ON BAR 93 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

158 bars across 21 sections: 62 keep time, 31 are fills, 28 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-18.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART Q
PART Z
PART V
PART H
CHORUS 6
PART Z
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
15 groovesIZHAVC+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Heat Above?

140 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 Heat Above 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

158 bars, about 4:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 19 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 Heat Above?

12 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 19, 20, 21, 26, 33, 36 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 158 BARS ANALYSED
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