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Heat Above · Greta Van Fleet

EXERCISE 19 OF 78
Groove M -- Part M
65 / 158 BARS COVERED
0 / 78 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L, PART M, PART V
COUNT-IN
PART C
PART L
PART M
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
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 8
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Heat Above on drums

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.

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
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-12, toms through bars 13-15, snare through bars 16-18, toms through bars 19-21, ride through bars 22-24 and snare through bars 25-29, and 20 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 65 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 -- I, H -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 13-47 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 28-34 -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part M and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 40-52 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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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