Heat Waves · Glass Animals

79 bars of 4/4 at a walking 81 BPM, 3:54 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopFunk / SoulUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
81 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 76% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-5, 7-13 and 15-21, and 4 more places -- 75.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 81 BPM
HEAT WAVES · BARS 7-8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

79 bars across 7 sections: 62 keep time and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-21.

VERSE
CHORUS
VERSE 2
CHORUS 2
VERSE 3
BREAK
VERSE 4
3 groovesAES6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Heat Waves?

81 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 Waves hard to play on drums?

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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