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Heat Waves · Glass Animals

EXERCISE 4 OF 13
Groove D
55 / 79 BARS COVERED
0 / 13 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE VERSE, VERSE 3
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
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Heat Waves on drums

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.

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
81 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
57/100

hi-hat through bars 1-50, silence through bars 51-59 and hi-hat through bars 60-79.

The beat

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.

    7                8
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|x-------xx-x----|
Heat Waves -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. Bars 22-42 -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 19-51 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED